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The Great Game - ripping yarns in High Asia
A Listmania! list by D Marley "BookishFoodie" (UK)

1. The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia by Peter Hopkirk

The list author says:
	"The single best book, covering the entire epic sweep of the Great Game, by the grand-master of the subject..."

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2. Explorers of the Western Himalayas, 1820-95: "When Men and Mountains Meet" and "Gilgit Game" by John Keay

The list author says:
	"prefiguring Hopkirk's books, John Keay is one of the best narrative history writers around; this gives more attention to the individual characters than Hopkirk's book."

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3. A Person From England and Other Travellers by Fitzroy. Maclean

The list author says:
	"If you want to see where Keay and Hopkirk got their model for ripping yarns and wild characters, this is it - and the author was something of a latter-day Great Gamer himself."

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4. Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer by Patrick French

The list author says:
	"If there's a hint of the fusty old colonel in Keay and Hopkirk, then Patrick French belongs to a new generation of Great Game writers, with a post-modern outlook on the subject. A brilliant biog"

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5. Murder in the Hindu Kush: George Hayward and the Great Game by Tim Hannigan

The list author says:
	"A closer look at one of the stranger and more unsettling characters from Keay and Hopkirk's books, with an interesting post-modern angle too, like Younghusband"

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6. Josiah the Great: The True Story of The Man Who Would Be King by Ben Macintyre

The list author says:
	"Just to show the Great Gamers weren't all Englishmen, here's a right ripping yarn about an odd American in Central Asia"

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7. Spying for the Raj: The Pundits and the Mapping of the Himalaya by Jules Stewart

The list author says:
	"And just to show that westerners weren't the only ones playing the Great Game, here's a neat little account of the Pundits, Britain's native spies in High Asia"

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8. Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Asia by Shareen Blair Brysac

The list author says:
	"If you want a slightly heavier overview than Peter Hopkirk's book, then this is it - it stretches the Great Game net wider too, all the way to the Nazis in Tibet!"

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9. Shooting Leave: Spying Out Central Asia in the Great Game by John Ure

The list author says:
	"This isn't as well written or engaging as the rest of the books on the list, but if you're a real Great Game afficionado, then it's still great fun, and it introduces some new characters"

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10. Flashman (The Flashman Papers) by George MacDonald Fraser

The list author says:
	"And just for fun, a bit of rollicking fiction - and fun it is, with the most glorious rogue in literature blundering into Afghanistan."

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11. The Lotus and the Wind by John Masters

The list author says:
	"And here's a rather more serious fictional version - very well written and evocative, though somehow not quite as gripping as the non-fiction stories which inspired it."

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12. Kim (Wordsworth Classics) by Rudyard Kipling

The list author says:
	"And how could any Great Game list not finish with the masterpiece that popularised the term "Great Game"? This is the novel that surely inspired all of the above writers."