books by Peter Hopkirk     books:     Peter Hopkirk      Quest for Kim: In Search of Kipling's Great Game Peter Hopkirk University of Michigan Press, 1999 The best companion book to Kipling's "Kim" Among Kiplingiana available for the 21th Century Kipling fan,. Hopkirk's "Quest for Kim" holds a well conquered place. Written in 1996 after many excellent books on British exploration, adventure and espionage in Asia, this small gem that stands between travelogue, ...             The Great Game Peter Hopkirk Oxford University Press, 2001 For nearly a century the two most powerful nations on earth - Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia - fought a secret war in the lonely passes and deserts of Central Asia. Those engaged in this shadowy struggle called it 'The Great Game', a phrase immortalized in Kipling's Kim. When play first began the two rival empires lay nearly 2,000 miles ...             Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Secret Exploration of Tibet (Kodansha Globe) Peter Hopkirk Kodansha Globe, 1995 Gatecrashers and trespassers have not diminished the lure of Tibet. Although extraordinary geography was the best natural defense the Tibetans had against foreign invaders, it can also be the sole reason that lures many a traveler, visitor, and tourists to Tibet to date. Of course, religion, spirituality, culture, art, and life on the ...             Mission to Tashkent F.M. Bailey, Peter Hopkirk Oxford University Press, USA, 2002 How Does He Get Away With That? So much of what has happened in Persia, Afghanistan, and Pakistan in the last 150 years is due to what has been called "The Great Game." Russia has always been a superpower that lacked a salt-water seaport free of ice all year round. (The Black Sea doesn't count ...             Like Hidden Fire: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire Peter Hopkirk Kodansha Globe, 1997 The fire that nearly engulfed the world Hopkirk delivers a wonderful book in his look at how the British Empire was forced to respond to Germany's attempts to destroy its empire. The book is the most terrifying installment of the series as Hopkirk describes Germany's efforts to raise a holy war in the Middle ...             On Secret Service East of Constantinople Peter Hopkirk Oxford Paperbacks, 2001 The Great War's Central Asian Campaign Peter Hopkirk, an English journalist, former co-worker of Idi Amin, and the go to man for English-language history of Central Asian has written this book about the events in Central Asia and environs during the First World War. German Emperor William II had long ...             Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia (Oxford ... Peter Hopkirk Oxford University Press, 1984             The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe) Peter Hopkirk Kodansha International, 1992 Definitely history come alive... I won't repeat too much of the praise already heaped upon this book, other than to say it is well deserved. Hopkirk has a very engaging writing style that makes it very difficult to put the book down. Just a few notes: - Hopkirk does a good job of staying on ...             Setting the East Ablaze: Lenins Dream of an Empire in Asia Peter Hopkirk Kodansha International, 1995 Absolutely brilliant One of the best books I have read in years. Possibly better than Hopkirk's original 'The Great Game'. While this is the tale of about espionage and sabotage behind enemy lines in Central Asia, it reads like an adventure novel. The action centres around immediate ...             Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia Peter Hopkirk University of Massachusetts Press, 1984 Yes Virginia, there really was an Indiana Jones This book is about the first explorers and archaeologists to make it to the most remote parts of Central Asia, where, in areas like Taklamakan, once upon a time before climatic changes, prosperous Buddhist, Nestorian Christian, Chinese, Greek and Hindu civilizations ...             Hunted through Central Asia: On the Run from Lenin's Secret Police Paul Nazaroff Oxford University Press, USA, 2002 On the run from the Soviets This book, first published seventy years ago, is a harrowing account of the author's escape from the Soviet Cheka shortly after the Russian Revolution. He was the leader of a group of rebels in Turkestan, and as such was a much sought after prize for the Bolsheviks, ...             My Life as an Explorer: The Great Adventurers Classic Memoir (Kodansha Globe) Sven Hedin, Peter Hopkirk Kodansha Globe, 1996 The Last Great Explorer The Swede Sven Hedin was the last great explorer we will see on this well-traveled planet. Hedin was born in 1865 and this autobiography describes his life up until 1908. Hedin's career was hardly finished, however, as he continued to traipse down the old Silk Road in ...             Foreign Devils on the Silk Road Peter Hopkirk John Murray, 2006             On Horseback through Asia Minor Frederick Burnaby, Peter Hopkirk Oxford University Press, USA, 1996 Now this is real adventure travel! Who in their right mind would voluntarily undertake an expedition on horseback thru Asia Minor in winter...Frederick Burnaby did in the year 1876, a time of intrigue in the Ottoman Empire and Russia where the forces that shaped WWI and 20th century alliances took ...             Trespassers On The Roof Of The World Peter Hopkirk Books on Tape, Inc., 1989 No other land has captured man's imagination quite like Tibet. Hidden away behind the Himalayas, ruled over by a god-like king, it has long been the stuff of travelers' dreams. Peter Hopkirk tells of the forcible opening up of this medieval land during the 19th and 20th centuries. The tale has a cast of secret agents and soldiers, explorers and ...          products you might be interested in search for books adventurers, constantinople, exploration, paperback, treasures, trespassers      toavi.com    web we recommend Definitely history come alive... randomly chosen DVD: Rescue Me - The Complete Fourth Season