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The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 8,849 ratings — published 1990
Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game & the Race for Empire in Central Asia (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 705 ratings — published 1999
Kim (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.70 — 39,540 ratings — published 1901
Setting the East Ablaze: Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asia (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 1,060 ratings — published 1984
Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 200 ratings — published 1994
A Ride to Khiva (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 260 ratings — published 1875
Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 4,942 ratings — published 2013
Like Hidden Fire: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 793 ratings — published 1994
Francis Younghusband and the Great Game (Hardback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 5 ratings — published 1991
Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Secret Exploration of Tibet (Kodansha Globe)
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avg rating 4.18 — 1,326 ratings — published 1982
Quest for Kim: In Search of Kipling's Great Game (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 433 ratings — published 1997
Beyond Bokhara: The Life of William Moorcroft, Asian Explorer and Veterinary Surgeon, 1767-1825 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 7 ratings — published 1985
The Heart of a Continent: A Narrative of Travels in Manchuria, across the Gobi Desert, through the Himalayas, the Pamirs, and Chitral, 1884-1894 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 41 ratings — published 1896
Present Tense (The Great Game, #2)
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avg rating 3.85 — 604 ratings — published 1996
Past Imperative (The Great Game, #1)
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avg rating 3.76 — 741 ratings — published 1995
Soldier Sahibs: The Men Who Made the North-West Frontier (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 181 ratings — published 2000
Clouds in the East: Travels and Adventures on the Perso-Turkoman Frontier (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published 2013
Flashman and the Mountain of Light (The Flashman Papers, #9)
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avg rating 4.23 — 3,843 ratings — published 1990
Courting India: Seventeenth-Century England, Mughal India, and the Origins of Empire (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.83 — 231 ratings — published 2023
The Pundits: British Exploration of Tibet and Central Asia (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 8 ratings — published 1990
Tibetan Adventures - Early Expeditions Into the Forbidden Land (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.50 — 2 ratings — published
Mission To Tashkent (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 204 ratings — published 1946
Future Indefinite (The Great Game, #3)
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avg rating 3.87 — 577 ratings — published 1997
Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 1,584 ratings — published 1980
American War (ebook)
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avg rating 3.80 — 41,482 ratings — published 2017
The True Blue: The Life and Adventures of Colonel Fred Burnaby 1842-85 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 1957
Journal of a March from Delhi to Peshawur: And from Thence to Cabul (Paperback)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Journal of a Residence in Circassia During the Years 1837, 1838, 1839 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 4 ratings — published 2002
The dervish of Windsor Castle: The life of Arminius Vambery (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.67 — 3 ratings — published
Summerland (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.56 — 2,702 ratings — published 2018
The King's Shadow: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Deadly Quest for the Lost City of Alexandria (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.80 — 977 ratings — published 2021
Younghusband: Troubled Campaign (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published
Flashman at the Charge (Flashman Papers, #4)
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avg rating 4.38 — 5,518 ratings — published 1973
Flashman (The Flashman Papers, #1)
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avg rating 4.06 — 15,717 ratings — published 1969
North-West Frontier 1837-1947 (Men at Arms Series, 72) (Men-at-Arms, 72)
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avg rating 3.86 — 22 ratings — published 1977
The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 699 ratings — published 2007
The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 38,217 ratings — published 1999
The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 4,572 ratings — published 2015
The Dark Defile: Britain's Catastrophic Invasion of Afghanistan, 1838-1842 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 95 ratings — published 2012
World Order (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 13,630 ratings — published 2014
Simplicissimus (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.72 — 2,736 ratings — published 1669
Great Games, Local Rules: The New Great Power Contest in Central Asia (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 137 ratings — published 2012
Victoria's Wars: The Rise of Empire (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 374 ratings — published 2006
The Great Game, 1856–1907: Russo-British Relations in Central and East Asia (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 13 ratings — published 2012
Travels into Bokhara: A Voyage up the Indus to Lahore and a Journey to Cabool, Tartary & Persia (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.92 — 200 ratings — published 1835
The Oil and the Glory: The Pursuit of Empire and Fortune on the Caspian Sea (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 237 ratings — published 2007
Oral Epics of Central Asia (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 5 ratings — published 1969
Dynamics of Political Development in Afghanistan: The British, Russian, and American Invasions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2010
Kabul Catastrophe: The Retreat of 1842 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 8 ratings — published 1986
The Road to Oxiana (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 3,348 ratings — published 1937
“Now I shall go far and far into the North,
playing the Great Game”
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playing the Great Game”
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“Curious Oriental imagery was employed in these documents. In one of his earlier letters the thum asked why the British strayed thus into his country 'like camels without nose rings'. In another letter he declared that he cared nothing for the womanly English, as he hung upon the skirts of the manly Russians, and he warned Colonel Durand that he had given orders to his followers to bring him the Gilgit Agent's head on a platter. The thum was, indeed an excellent correspondent about this time. He used to dictate his letters to the Court Munshi, the only literary man, I believe, in the whole of his dominions, who wrote forcible, if unclassical, Persian. In one letter the thum somewhat shifted his ground, and spoke of other friends. 'I have been tributary to China for hundreds of years. Trespass into China if you dare,' he wrote to Colonel Durand. 'I will withstand you, if I have to use bullets of gold. If you venture here, be prepared to fight three nations - Hunza, China, and Russia. We will cut your head off, Colonel Durand, and then report you to the Indian Government.”
― WHERE THREE EMPIRES MEET: Narrative of travel in Kashmir, Western Tibet, Gilgit and other adjoining countries
― WHERE THREE EMPIRES MEET: Narrative of travel in Kashmir, Western Tibet, Gilgit and other adjoining countries
