The Great Game - ripping yarns in High Asia

A Listmania! list by D Marley "BookishFoodie" (UK)
 
The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia
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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Explorers of the Western Himalayas, 1820-95: "When Men and Mountains Meet" and "Gilgit Game"
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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A Person From England and Other Travellers
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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Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer
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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Murder in the Hindu Kush: George Hayward and the Great Game
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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Josiah the Great: The True Story of The Man Who Would Be King
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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Spying for the Raj: The Pundits and the Mapping of the Himalaya
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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Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Asia
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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Shooting Leave: Spying Out Central Asia in the Great Game
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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Flashman (The Flashman Papers)
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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The Lotus and the Wind
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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Kim (Wordsworth Classics)
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."
£1.99   Used & New from: £0.01
4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)

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