Peter Hopkirk (1930–2014)
Autor(a) de The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia
About the Author
Peter Hopkirk has traveled widely over many years in Central Asia, Russia, China, India, Pakistan, and the Middle East as writer
Obras por Peter Hopkirk
Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia (1980) 616 exemplares
Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Secret Exploration of Tibet (Kodansha Globe) (1983) — Autor — 464 exemplares
Hopkirk Peter 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Hunted through Central Asia: On the Run from Lenin's Secret Police (1933) — Introdução, algumas edições — 63 exemplares
The Spy Who Disappeared: Diary of a Secret Mission to Russian Central Asia in 1918 (1990) — Introdução, algumas edições — 24 exemplares
The Worst Desert on Earth: Crossing The Taklamakan (1995) — Prefácio, algumas edições — 22 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)
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- 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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Críticas
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.
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.… (mais)
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.… (mais)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 8
- Also by
- 10
- Membros
- 3,843
- Popularidade
- #6,593
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Críticas
- 72
- ISBN
- 88
- Línguas
- 10
- Marcado como favorito
- 14
- Pedras de toque
- 81
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… (mais)