An Endless Progression of Whirlwinds
Robert Irwin: Asian empire, 21 June 2001
Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Asia
by Karl Meyer and Shareen Brysac.
Little, Brown, 646 pp., £25, January 2001,0 316 85589 8 Show More
by Karl Meyer and Shareen Brysac.
Little, Brown, 646 pp., £25, January 2001,
Tibet: The Great Game and Tsarist Russia
by Tatiana Shaumian.
Oxford, 223 pp., £16, October 2000,0 19 565056 5 Show More
by Tatiana Shaumian.
Oxford, 223 pp., £16, October 2000,
“... others. Evidently, the book is loosely focused and some of the figures whose lives Karl Meyer and Shareen Brysac chronicle were in no sense protagonists in the Great Game, but rather scholars, mystics and eccentrics who happened to have wandered around in the disputed regions. The book is also unbalanced by its excessive focus on Americans, who played a ... ”
