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Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia
USA, Cornelia and Michael Bessie Book, 1999. 1 volume, hard-cover with illustrated dust-jacket, in-8, 646 pp., 9 maps, ex library, very good copy.
Contents: The Horse Doctor - A River Too Far - The Road to Kabul - 'Here Comes the Messenger' - The Russians Are Coming - The Raj Imperiled - Bloomsbury's War - Her Majesty's Indian Secret Service - 'A Carbine in One Hand. A Whip in the Other' - Mystical Imperialism - Emissary to the White Tsar - Curzon's Hour - The Desert Wanderer - The Spoils of Serindia - The Last of the 'Foreign Devils' - First Encounters of an American Kind - On the Playing Fields of Lhasa - The 'Shanbhala Project' - The Guru - The Consions Discover Tibet - Swastikas to Lhasa - High Mischief.
