Mapping the Great Game
Explorers, Spies, and Maps in 19th-Century Asia

When European powers competed among themselves for colonial annexation in the nineteenth century, it became the lot of Asia to come under their hegemonic invasions and also to provide the battleground for their internecine warfare. Britain stood its ground in India quite firmly and convincingly by 1......more

Interesting book! What I missed though, were having more comprehensive maps, as it can be difficult to interpret some movement for those unfamiliar with the Indus region.......more

Mapping the Great Game is a somewhat scattered but still fascinating account of geography and spycraft in 19th century Asia. India was the crown gem in the British Empire, but its frontiers were poorly understood and even less well defined, and it took a dedicated effort to map them. The consistent......more

This is a passable overview of the events involved in implementing Russian and British foreign policy in Central Asia during the nineteenth century, severely limited in scope and usefulness by the author's failure to examine the implications and ramifications of Russo-British policies (why are the b......more

It's hard to put this book under a stereotypical genre - it is one of those random picks, something that catches your eye browsing through a small bookshop or a random airport hole-in-the-wall, with no specific objective in mind. The book revolves around the stories and adventures of explorers throu......more