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Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Treasures of Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
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 began to ...Show more
QUEST FOR KIM PB by HOPKIRK PETER
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Category: History | Series: The\Hungry Student Ser.
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 see ...Show more
The Great Game by Peter HOPKIRK
$26.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Not a Ser.
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 the two riva ...Show more
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