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Shooting Leave: Spying Out Central Asia in the Great Game
Shooting Leave Spying Out Central Asia in the Great Game
Author: John Ure
Snow leopards and Cossacks can both be dangerous. But to young British officers in India in the nineteenth century there was only one thing more exciting than shooting wild game in the mountains and steppes of Central Asia, and that was spying out those uncharted lands and impeding the advance of Tsarist Russia towards the frontiers of the Briti...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781849010405
ISBN-10: 1849010404
Publication Date: 10/29/2009
Pages: 304
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Publisher: Constable
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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