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Peter Hopkirk (1930–2014)

Autor(a) de The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia

8+ Works 3,843 Membros 72 Críticas 14 Favorited

About the Author

Peter Hopkirk has traveled widely over many years in Central Asia, Russia, China, India, Pakistan, and the Middle East as writer

Inclui os nomes: Peter Hopkirk, Hoppkirk Peter

Obras por Peter Hopkirk

Associated Works

My Journey to Lhasa (1927) — Introdução, algumas edições589 exemplares
Mission to Tashkent (1983) — Introdução, algumas edições273 exemplares
My Life as an Explorer (1925) — New Prologue and Epilogue, algumas edições219 exemplares
A Ride to Khiva (1876) — Introdução, algumas edições164 exemplares
On Horseback through Asia Minor (1985) — Introdução, algumas edições76 exemplares
Hunted through Central Asia: On the Run from Lenin's Secret Police (1933) — Introdução, algumas edições63 exemplares
Buried Treasures of Chinese Turkestan (1974) — Introdução, algumas edições36 exemplares
Journey to Turkistan (1937) — Introdução, algumas edições26 exemplares
The Spy Who Disappeared: Diary of a Secret Mission to Russian Central Asia in 1918 (1990) — Introdução, algumas edições24 exemplares
The Worst Desert on Earth: Crossing The Taklamakan (1995) — Prefácio, algumas edições22 exemplares

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1930-12-15
Data de falecimento
2014-08-22
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
England
UK
Local de nascimento
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
Educação
The Dragon School, Oxford
Marlborough College
Ocupações
journalist
author
Relações
Hopkirk, Kathleen (wife)
Organizações
King's African Rifles
The Times
Daily Express
ITN
Drum
Prémios e menções honrosas
Sir Percy Sykes Memorial Medal (1999)

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Before turning full-time author, he was an ITN reporter and newscaster for two years, the New York correspondent of Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express, and then worked for nearly twenty years on The Times; five as its chief reporter, and latterly as a Middle East and Far East specialist. In the 1950s, he edited the West African news magazine Drum, sister paper to its legendary South African namesake. Before entering Fleet Street, he served as a subaltern in the King's African Rifles – in the same battalion as Lance-Corporal Idi Amin, later to emerge as the Ugandan tyrant.

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This book focuses on a very specific portion of two countries' (Russia and Great Britain) empire building manuevers ("The Great Game"); and in what ways they tried to race to control the Central Asian areas and how they tried to outmaneuver each other. I had mistakenly thought this book was a broad history of the British in India. I did finish the book, but I certainly did not enjoy it. I would only recommend it to those specifically interested in that geographical area and specific period of time, and learning all they can about the Russian and British "Great Game" in particular. It is devoid of many historical backgrounds and biographical information and made for dry reading. It is more a very lengthy timeline of actions of Russian and British "players" against various Asian cities and rulers and a neverending list of the battles and skirmishes. At times some of the bloodbaths are depicted with some gruesome details.

The book was extremely biased in favor of the British, even though the Russians were supposed to be a co-player. They were definitely overshadowed with the author's glowing rendition of the British heroes and exploits. Worse yet was the consistent derogatory terms used to depict the local population whose land British and Russia were busily invading and claiming, as barbaric, uncivilized, savage, etc. The Western Civilization rhetoric and narrative was heavy and disturbing. The book certainly does lay a groundwork of how we have ended up where we are today and the catastrophic events going on in the world
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shirfire218 | 34 outras críticas | Nov 17, 2023 |
Una pericolosa partita a scacchi durata più di un secolo in un mondo con idee talmente remote da far leggere questo saggio - bello e documentato benché inevitabilmente di parte - anche come un libro d'avventura.
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catcarlo | 34 outras críticas | Aug 21, 2022 |
Like Hidden Fire is an adventure novel as non-fiction. Covering the German and Turkish plans to carve out empires in central Asia during World War I and the return to the Great Game of nineteenth century.

As ever, Hopkirk covers the machinations of the varying nations; the Turks, the Germans, the Russian Empire, the Russian Bolsheviks, the myriad tribesmen of central Asia and the Brits. Obviously the British soldiers at the heart of the story are the heroes and everyone else, including the Indians who only wanted the British to leave them alone.

I have greatly enjoyed all of Hopkirk's books and my only regret is that I have now read all of them.
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MiaCulpa | 6 outras críticas | Feb 23, 2022 |
Titolo originale: "The Great Game On Secret Service in High Asis
 
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Nazzareno | 34 outras críticas | Jan 28, 2022 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
8
Also by
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Membros
3,843
Popularidade
#6,593
Avaliação
4.0
Críticas
72
ISBN
88
Línguas
10
Marcado como favorito
14
Pedras de toque
81

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