by Peter Hopkirk
Reading Rudyard Kipling's Kim has me looking for a nonfiction book about the Great Game, the 19th / 20th century proto-Cold War between Russia and the US over control of Central Asia. (At least, it was something like that. I haven't read the book yet.)Internet research seems clear that this is THE b...
Hopkirk writes in a way that these British and Russian spies, adventurers, explorers read like fictional heroes playing a huge, masterly game of chess in one of the most mysterious, dangerous and incredible place in the world.I loved it. It reads like a novel but it's not. It's from the British poin...
Absolutely fascinating account of the power struggle between Great Britain and Russia in Asia. What I loved the most is that author talks about the big picture through the small pictures of those who were participating in the Great Game and their fates.
Far from exhaustive but certainly exhausting to read, this history of England and Russia skirmishing over who gets to be in charge of central Asia was fascinating. 500-odd pages and one only skims the surface. The sheer grit of the early explorers is astonishing- facing horrible conditions and alien...
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