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Tournament of shadows, great game and the race for empire in Central Asia, by Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac

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Tournament of shadows, great game and the race for empire in Central Asia, by Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac

Language

eng

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Tournament of shadows

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by Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac

Sub title

great game and the race for empire in Central Asia

Table Of Contents

The horse doctor -- A river too far -- The road to Kabul -- "Here comes the messenger" -- The Russians are coming -- The Raj imperiled -- Bloomsbury's war -- Her Majesty's Indian secret service -- "A carbine in one hand, a whip in the other" -- Mystical imperialism -- Emissary to the White Tsar -- Curzon's hour -- The desert wanderer -- The spoils of Serindia -- The last of the "foreign devils" -- First encounters of an American kind -- On the playing fields of Lhasa -- The "Shambhala Project" -- The guru -- THe cousins discover Tibet -- Swastikas to Lhasa -- High mischief

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Great game and the race for empire in Central Asia

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