The Great Game
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.
★ 6.4
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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
A Journey Through Yugoslavia
1941 · 1181 pages
Rebecca West traveled through Yugoslavia in 1937 and wrote eleven hundred pages. A lamb bled on a Macedonian rock and a Serbian poem of chosen defeat become her account of Europe's death wish.
★ 6.1