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Nonfiction · History

The Great Game

Peter Hopkirk
1990 · 565 pages

Britain and Russia crept toward each other across Central Asia until two thousand miles between them became twenty. Hopkirk tells it through the officers who rode alone into Bukhara, Khiva, and Kabul.

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