Re: The Great Game by Peter Hopkirk
The were some really amazing facts in the book. In some cases a British operative would enter a city of 300,000 people in the 1850s and he was the first Englishman to ever see the city! There was another case where a tribal warlord living in the mountains north of India believed his military might to be on par with England's. The isolation is really hard to grasp.
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