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 : 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 : 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 : Albert von Le Coq
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429871414
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buried Treasures of Chinese Turkestan written by Albert von Le Coq and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-14 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1928, this volume constituted the results of expeditions by the famous archaeologist and explorer of Central Asia, Albert von Le Coq. Funded by the last German emperor, Wilhelm II, and von Le Coq’s own brewing and winery empire, the second and third German expeditions ventured to Turfan in the Xinjiang region of China. Travelling East expecting to find Greek influences, the expedition in fact uncovered extensive networks of Buddhist and Manichaean cave temples in the Northwest China. This volume includes extensive images in addition to a record of the expedition’s journeys and discoveries.

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 : Peter Hopkirk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780192851666
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Setting the East Ablaze written by Peter Hopkirk and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.'

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 : Peter Hopkirk
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 : 1848547250
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Setting the East Ablaze written by Peter Hopkirk and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Let us turn our faces towards Asia', exhorted Lenin when the long-awaited revolution in Europe failed to materialize. 'The East will help us conquer the West.' Peter Hopkirk's book tells for the first time the story of the Bolshevik attempt to set the East ablaze with the heady 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 spies, Communist revolutionaries, Muslim visionaries and Chinese warlords - as well as a White Russian baron who roasted his Bolshevik captives alive. Here is an extraordinary tale of intrigue and treachery, barbarism and civil war, whose violent repercussions continue to be felt in Central Asia today.