Murder in the Hindu Kush : George Hayward and the Great Game
Tim. Hannigan
Bok Engelsk 2011 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Stroud : : The History Press, , 2011.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (455 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Title page; Acknowledgements; Contents; Maps; 1 Death in the Morning; 2 Into the Wild; 3 From Forest to the Frontier; 4 A Most Unsettling Companion; 5 Fugitive on the Upper Yarkand; 6 The Way they Treat their Guests in Turkestan; 7 The Road is Full of Stones; 8 Speak, or Die Bursting with Rage; 9 Strange and Suggestive; 10 Hayward's Curse; Chapter Notes; Bibliography; Index; Plate section; Copyright. - On a bright July morning in 1870 the British explorer George Hayward was brutally murdered high in the Hindu Kush. Who was he, what had brought him to this wild spot, and why was he killed? Told in full for the first time, this is the gripping tale of Hayward's journey from a Yorkshire childhood to a place at the forefront of the 'Great Game' between the British Raj and the Russian Empire, and of how, driven by 'an insane desire', he crossed the Western Himalayas, tangled with despotic chieftains and ended up on the wrong side of both the Raj and the mighty Maharaja of Kashmir. It is also
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| ISBN | 978-0-7524-5886-1(ib.)
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