Peter Hopkirk: 9 books

Un grand classique d'une brûlante actualité !  Au cœur de l'Asie centrale, le fascinant jeu de l'ombre qui opposa les Empires britannique et russe au dix-neuvième siècle. Un passionnant récit d’aventure, de guerre et d’espionnage sur l’un des épisodes les plus romanesques de l’histoire...

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 retraces Kim's footsteps across Kipling's India to...

'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...

«Improvvisamente il cielo diventa nero ... e subito dopo la tempesta aggredisce con violenza terrificante la carovana. Enormi vortici di sabbia mista a sassi sono sollevati in aria e turbinando colpiscono uomini e bestie. L’oscurità aumenta e strani schianti risuonano fra i ruggiti e gli ululati...

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...

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. Its oasis towns blossomed into thriving centres of Buddhist art and learning. In time it...

Apparso per la prima volta in Inghilterra nel 1990, questo libro di Hopkirk è un saggio storico che somiglia molto a un romanzo d’avventura, ma soprattutto un affresco del “Grande Gioco” che per buona parte dell’Ottocento impegnò inglesi e russi in Afghanistan, in Iran e nelle steppe dell’Asia...

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,...

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 by Kipling. When play first began...