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1	The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia more books like this by Peter Hopkirk add to wishlist IN see all copies from £7.48! new only from £11.13! \| first editions
2	Setting the East Ablaze: Lenins Dream of an Empire in Asia more books like this by Peter Hopkirk add to wishlist As the European revolution failed to materialize, Lenin decreed, `Let us turn our faces towards Asia. The East will help us to conquer the West.' Pieced together from secret reports and eye-witness memoirs, this is the first book to tell the story of the Bolshevik attempt to spread Marxism throughout Asia and its frustration by British Indian ... see all copies from £4.09! new only from £6.88! \| first editions
3	Like Hidden Fire: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire more books like this by Peter Hopkirk add to wishlist The story of the World War I conspiracy between the Germans and the Turks to unleash a Muslim holy war against the British in India and the Russians in Central Asia. Drawing on secret intelligence reports from newly opened archives and rare first-person accounts, Hopkirk skillfully reconstructs the bold and elaborate plot masterminded in Berlin by ... see all copies from £8.58! new only from £12.14! \| first editions
4	Foreign Devils on Silk Road more books like this by Peter Hopkirk add to wishlist see all copies from £9.56! new only from £16.48!
5	Mission to Tashkent more books like this by Frederick Bailey, Peter Hopkirk (Introduction by) add to wishlist 'one of the best books about secret intelligence work ever written' Peter Hopkirk. Colonel F. M. Bailey, whose extraordinary adventures are told here, was long accused by Moscow of being a British master-spy sent in 1918 to overthrow the Bolsheviks in Central Asia. As a result, he enjoyed many years after his death an almost legendary reputation ... see all copies from £5.11! new only from £6.35! \| first editions
6	Quest for Kim: In Search of Kipling's Great Game more books like this by Peter Hopkirk add to wishlist This book is for all those who love Kim , that masterpiece of Indian life in which Kipling immortalized the Great Game. Fascinated since childhood by this strange tale of an orphan boy's recruitment into the Indian secret service, Peter Hopkirk here explores the many mysteries surrounding Kipling's great novel. He shows that most of the characters ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £6.75! \| first editions
7	Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia more books like this by Peter Hopkirk add to wishlist The Silk Road, the great trans-Asian highway linking Imperial Rome to China, reached the height of its importance during the T'ang Dynasty. Along it travelled precious cargoes as well as new ideas, art and knowledge. Its oasis towns blossomed into thriving centres of trade. However, as the Chinese lost control of the region, it began to decline to ... see all copies from £2.09! new only from £6.09! \| first editions
8	On Secret Service East of Constantinople: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire more books like this by Peter Hopkirk add to wishlist Under the banner of a Holy War, masterminded in Berlin and unleashed from Constantinople, the Germans and the Turks set out in 1914 to foment violent revolutionary uprisings against the British in India and the Russians in Central Asia. It was a new and more sinister version of the old Great Game, with world domination as its ultimate aim. German ... see all copies from £6.15! first editions
9	Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Secret Exploration of Tibet more books like this by Peter Hopkirk add to wishlist For centuries, Tibet has been the prize destination of determined explorers from England, Russia, and many other countries attempting to claim her for their own. Now, the widely acclaimed author of The Great Game presents a compelling history of the exploration of Tibet from the 19th century up to the present day. see all copies from £8.10! new only from £9.82! \| first editions
10	The great game : on secret service in high Asia more books like this by Peter Hopkirk add to wishlist The "Great Game" was an imperial, political, diplomatic, and military enterprise in which intrepid individuals played for high stakes in a struggle that stretched from the Causasus in the West to Chinese Turkestan and Tibet in the East. The prize was British India. When play first began, the frontiers of Russia and India lay some 2000 miles apart; ... see all copies from £3.61! new only from £7.07! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	My Life as an Explorer: The Great Adventurers Classic Memoir more books like this by Sven Hedin, Peter Hopkirk (Introduction by), Philip Turner (Editor) add to wishlist Sven Hedin (1865-1952) spent three decades exploring Central Asia: traveling the Silk Road, discovering long-lost cities, mapping uncharted rivers. This memoir tells the story of his exploits and accomplishments. see all copies from £5.61! new only from £11.20! \| first editions
12 view cover	Hunted Through Central Asia: On the Run from Lenin's Secret Police more books like this by Paul Nazaroff, Peter Hopkirk (Introduction by) add to wishlist 'My position was uncomfortable. Here was I, in an absolutely exposed place, with Red Guards and commissars on every side. I had very little money left and no means of transport at all.' Paul Nazaroff was the ringleader of a desperate plot to overthrow the Bolsheviks in Central Asia in 1918. He was betrayed to the Secret Police, who declared him ... see all copies from £10.00! new only from £15.58!
13 view cover	Trespassers on the roof of the world : the race for Lhasa more books like this by Peter Hopkirk add to wishlist Hidden behind the Himalayas and ruled over by a God-king, Tibet has always cast a powerful spell over travellers form the West. In this remarkable, and ultimately tragic narrative, Peter Hopkirk recounts the forcible opening up of this medieval land during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the extraordinary race between agents, soldiers, ... see all copies from £4.19! new only from £6.85! \| signed copies \| first editions
14	Trespass Roof Wrld C more books like this by Peter Hopkirk add to wishlist see all copies from £7.07! first editions
15	Trespassers on Roof P by Peter Hopkirk add to wishlist This fascinating and informative book tells of an extraordinary contest that spanned a century as travellers from nine different countries attempted to enter a Tibet closed to the outside world. see all copies from £6.24! new only from £13.71! \| first editions
16 view cover	Hunted Through Central Asia more books like this by Pavel Nazaroff, Malcolm Burr (Translator), Peter Hopkirk (Introduction by) add to wishlist Pavel (also known as "Paul") Nazaroff was the ringleader of a desperate plot to overthrow Bolshevik rule in Central Asia in 1918. He was betrayed to the Bolshevik secret police - the dreaded Cheka - who condemned him to death as "a known enemy of the proletariat". A white Russian uprising stormed the prison in Tashkent where he was being held and ... see all copies from £4.01! first editions
17 view cover	The International History of the Works Minis in International Rallies and Races more books like this by Peter Browning, Paddy Hopkirk (Foreword by) add to wishlist This is the full story of how the famous BMC Competitions Department at Abingdon developed the Mini-Minor into a world-beating rally winner during the 1960s. Updated and presented in a larger format, it brings the story right up to date and includes a new chapter on rallycross, plus coverage of classic car rallying where ex-works cars and replicas ... see all copies from £2.35! new only from £2.35!
18 view cover	Quest for Kim: In Search of Kipling's Great Game more books like this by Peter Hopkirk, Peter Hopkirk add to wishlist Fascinated since childhood by Kim, that strange tale of an orphan boy's recruitment into the Indian secret service, Peter Hopkirk, the renowned author of The Great Game, here sets out on an intriguing journey across India and Pakistan to unlock the many mysteries surrounding Kipling's great novel. As he travels, Hopkirk's detective work reveals ... see all copies from £4.42! first editions
19 view cover	Foreign devils on the Silk Road : the search for the lost treasures of Central Asia more books like this by Peter Hopkirk add to wishlist The Silk Road, which linked imperial Rome and distant China, was once the greatest thoroughfare on earth. Along it travelled precious cargoes of silk, gold, and ivory, as well as revolutionary new ideas. It s oasis towns blossomed into thriving centres of Buddhist art and learning. In time it began to decline. The traffic slowed, the merchants ... see all copies from £6.79!
20 view cover	Setting the East ablaze : on secret service in Bolshevik Asia more books like this by Peter Hopkirk add to wishlist Peter Hopkirk's book tells for the first time the story of the Bolshevik attempt between the wars to set the East ablaze with the new gospel of Marxism. Lenin's dream was to liberate the whole of Asia, but his starting point was British India. A shadowy, undeclared war followed. Among the players in this new Great Game were British Indian ... see all copies from £5.15!
21	Visits to High Tartary, Yarkand and Kashgar more books like this by Robert Shaw add to wishlist Written over a century ago by British tea planter and pioneer explorer Robert Shaw, this volume recounts Shaw's now celebrated journey into Central Asia. Shaw set out on his expedition in 1868--a time when Britain and Russia were aggressively vying for control over the uncharted terrain of Central Asia--in the hope of opening up the region as a ... see all copies from £27.93! new only from £27.93! \| first editions
22	Finding Your Guardian Spirit: The Secrets of Life After Death Revealed by Japan's Foremost Psychic more books like this by Peter Hopkirk, Aiko Gibo, Eric Chaline (Editor) add to wishlist This "immensely readable and magisterially detached work" (Financial Times) is the story of the great imperial struggle for strategic and economic supremacy fought across a cruel and desolate terrain stretching from the Caucasus to China--espionage and treachery on a grand scale and in exotic settings. 39 photographs. 5 maps. see all copies from £5.89! new only from £32.40! \| first editions
23	Sur Le Toit Du Monde-Hors-La-Loi by Peter Hopkirk add to wishlist see all copies from £30.77! new only from £30.77!
24	Bouddhas Et Rùdeurs Sur La Route De La Soie by Peter Hopkirk add to wishlist see all copies from £32.17! new only from £32.17!

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