An Endless Progression of Whirlwinds
Robert Irwin: Asian empire, 21 June 2001
Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Asia
by Karl Meyer and Shareen Brysac.
Little, Brown, 646 pp., £25, January 2001,0 316 85589 8 Show More
by Karl Meyer and Shareen Brysac.
Little, Brown, 646 pp., £25, January 2001,
Tibet: The Great Game and Tsarist Russia
by Tatiana Shaumian.
Oxford, 223 pp., £16, October 2000,0 19 565056 5 Show More
by Tatiana Shaumian.
Oxford, 223 pp., £16, October 2000,
“... a hard-to-spell horse; Francis Younghusband, the mystical imperialist; Aurel Stein, the manuscript hunter; Sven Hedin, the Nazi sympathiser who seems to have regarded Asian exploration as a proving ground for the superman; Nicholas Roerich, the artist and barmy quester after the fabled hidden city of Shambhala; and many others. Evidently, the book is loosely ... ”