Trespassers On The Roof Of The World

Author : Peter Hopkirk
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 : 1848547269
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trespassers on the Roof of the World written by Peter Hopkirk and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No other land has captured man's imagination quite like Tibet. Hidden away behind the highest mountains on earth, and ruled over by a mysterious God-king, it was for centuries a land forbidden to all outsiders. In this remarkable and ultimately tragic narrative, Peter Hopkirk recounts the forcible opening up of this medieval Buddhist kingdom by inquisitive Western travellers during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the race to reach Lhasa, Tibet's sacred capital. This epic, often harrowing tale, which ends with the Chinese invasion of 1950, draws on a colourful cast of gatecrashers from nine different countries. Among them were adventurous young officers on Great Game missions, explorers and mountaineers, mystics and missionaries. All took their lives in their hands, including three intrepid women. Some were never to return.

Author : Peter Hopkirk
Publisher : Tarcher
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trespassers on the Roof of the World written by Peter Hopkirk and published by Tarcher. This book was released on 1983 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Hopkirk
Publisher : J P Tarcher
ISBN 13 : 9780874775761
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trespassers on the Roof of the World written by Peter Hopkirk and published by J P Tarcher. This book was released on 1990 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portrays the experiences of nineteenth and twentieth-century spies, soldiers, explorers, missionaries, mystics, and mountain climbers as they traveled through Tibet to reach the city of Lhasa

Author : Peter Hopkirk
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472086344
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quest for Kim written by Peter Hopkirk and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two authors' passion for India and the Great Game

Author : Peter Hopkirk
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192802316
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quest for Kim written by Peter Hopkirk and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two authors' passion for India and the Great Game.

Author : Jacqueline H. Fewkes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135973091
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trade and Contemporary Society Along the Silk Road written by Jacqueline H. Fewkes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-10-27 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the trade system in Ladakh (India), a busy entrepôt for Silk Route trade between Central and South Asia. The author's research combines anthropological, historical, and archaeological methods of investigation to present a cultural history of South/Central Asia.

Author : Sarah K. Danielsson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317032314
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Explorer's Roadmap to National-Socialism written by Sarah K. Danielsson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whilst terms such as Lebensraum are commonly associated with National-Socialist ideology of the 1930s and 40s, ideas of racial living space were in fact generated in the previous decades by an international geographic community of explorers and academics. Focusing on one of the most influential figures within this group, Sven Hedin, this is the first study that systematically connects the geographic community to the intellectual history of the development of National-Socialist ideology and genocidal practices. The book demonstrates how colonial, racial and nationalistic policies were often spearheaded by explorers and geographers such as Hedin. In Germany, Britain, France, and Russia their positions as publicly recognized authors and reputable academics made them highly influential with politicians. Whilst this influence was to become most visible within Hitler's Germany, the debates were not by any means restricted to or even originated in, Germany. Germany was the home of some of the most prominent geographers, but this scientific community had a tradition of international debate and exchange with especially British, French and Russian geographic societies and institutions. Many issues that were later discussed and championed by National-Socialist ideology were aired and debated in this international setting - raising important questions about the international character and impact of National-Socialism. Tracing the intellectual history of the international geographic community and its relationship to National-Socialism, this study provides an assessment of Hedin's close involvement with the Nazi elite as a culmination of decades of political and scientific work. In so doing the book uncovers a long ignored or overlooked important connection between exploration, geographers, and genocide.

Author : Peter Hopkirk
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 : 1848546335
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Secret Service East of Constantinople written by Peter Hopkirk and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Here, told in epic detail and for the first time, is the true story behind John Buchan's classic wartime thriller Greenmantle, recounted through the adventures and misadventures of the secret agents and others who took part in it. It is an ominously topical tale today in view of the continuing turmoil in this volatile region where the Great Game has never really ceased.

Author : Budd Hebert
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739187236
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Small World, Big Market written by Budd Hebert and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small World, Big Market: Global Business provides an overview of the development of international business with special emphasis on oil production, an essential part of economic development. The book focuses on major trade patterns, including the Silk Road that connected China with Europe beginning at the turn of the millennium; the Chinese Tribute Trade that connected China to Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Mideast beginning in the thirteenth century; the spice trade between Southeast Asia and India by the early fifteenth century; and European-dominated world trade. This volume examines gold and silver trade from the Americas to Europe in the sixteenth century, and also covers the development of the Americas, together with existing African slave trade throughout Eurasia, giving rise to the expansion of African slave. Budd Hebert also discusses common principles and personal character tools for bringing together diverse cultures to facilitate international business. Small World, Big Market culminates by highlighting selected trends that impact international business.

Author : Christopher M. Andrew
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300238444
Total Pages : 993 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret World written by Christopher M. Andrew and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 993 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first-ever detailed, comprehensive history of intelligence, from Moses and Sun Tzu to the present day The history of espionage is far older than any of today's intelligence agencies, yet the long history of intelligence operations has been largely forgotten. The codebreakers at Bletchley Park, the most successful World War II intelligence agency, were completely unaware that their predecessors in earlier moments of national crisis had broken the codes of Napoleon during the Napoleonic wars and those of Spain before the Spanish Armada. Those who do not understand past mistakes are likely to repeat them. Intelligence is a prime example. At the outbreak of World War I, the grasp of intelligence shown by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith was not in the same class as that of George Washington during the Revolutionary War and leading eighteenth-century British statesmen. In this book, the first global history of espionage ever written, distinguished historian Christopher Andrew recovers much of the lost intelligence history of the past three millennia--and shows us its relevance.