An account of how the wilderness in the heart of the Western Himalayas was explored and appropriated by a small group of intelligence agents involved in the Great Game - the century-long rivalry between Russia and British India for control of Central Asia.
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An account of how the wilderness in the heart of the Western Himalayas was explored and appropriated by a small group of intelligence agents involved in the Great Game - the century-long rivalry between Russia and British India for control of Central Asia.
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Seller's Description:
Very good in very good dust jacket. Hardback 264pp text plus bibliography and index Illustrated history of the early explorers. Very good copy with one small stain on page edges. This is an edition published for sale "in India and Pakistan only". Previous owner's signature on end paper.
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Seller's Description:
Fine. 277 pages Pristine condition-almost As New. marred only by what appears to be a production problem-a 1/2 in. X 1/4 in cut to the back cover upper spine corner. from the back cover: " The arena was 40, 000 square miles of the world's highest mountains, an unknown and impossibly remote wilderness, which briefly became the flashpoint of Asia".
