Great Game, Paperback - Peter Hopkirk

'Peter Hopkirk is truly the Laureate of the Great Game' Jan Morris

Manga adaptation of the third Sherlock BBC episode - printed in English in the US for the first time A mystery enemy is causing utter chaos for Hol...

In the world of DIE, the players are now real players. Countries are their pieces and the board threatens to run red with blood. Who is the Queen a...

'A fascinating, brilliantly written book' Times Literary SupplementPublisher: John Murray PressAuthor(s): Peter HopkirkIllustration(s): 8pp black a...

Prisoners of Geography meets The World is Flat in a groundbreaking new study.

Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful o...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Silk Road, which linked imperial Rome and distant China, was once the greatest thoroughfare on earth. Along it traveled precious car...

The gripping tale of Hayward's journey from a Yorkshire childhood to a place at the forefront of the 'Great Game' between the British Raj and the R...

Promoted to the elite Praetorian Guard in the thick of battle, a young legionary is thrust into a seedy world of imperial politics and corruption. ...

Reducere. For nineteenth-century adventures, Tibet was the prize destination, and Lhasa, its capital situated nearly three miles above sea level, was the gra...

'A rich harvest of harrowing adventures recounted in fascinating detail' Daily TelegraphPublisher: John Murray PressAuthor(s): Peter HopkirkIllustr...

'Hopkirk has made the extraordinary field of Central-Asian espionage his own ... an enthralling story' ObserverPublisher: John Murray PressAuthor(s...

'Difficult to put down ... irresistible' Daily Telegraph

The Dark Man is sent to a ruined old mansion to rescue two children who have a mystical power.

Reducere. A Montana deputy takes on a mining company that's poisoning reservation children in a novel the Washington Post calls "wonderful [and] wise." Somet...

Colorado. Washington. Oregon. California. Since 2012 nine states and DC have legalized cannabis, with more states to follow. Already a $9.7 billion...

ELI Digital Language Games. The Great Verb Game. Game box + digital edition

The Great Game of Numbers

When Simon the squirrel's mum sends him off to the shop, Simon decides to fly to the moon in Old Uncle Somerset's hot air balloon in search of chee...

"On the day of the Great Fall he left nothing, nothing at all behind." The latest work by Peter Handke, one of our greatest living writers, chronic...

Reducere. My first attempt at writing was based on the fact that I had collected over the years about 500 quotations from Catholic spiritual authors and I se...

A highly informative, though a little morbid, trump card game that tests players on their knowledge of the amazing deaths that appeared in Shakespe...

Reducere. Understand the Complexity of the World's Greatest MonumentStanding sentinel for four and a half millennia, the Great Pyramid of Giza has fascinated...

DescriptionA JOURNEY THROUGH THE HEART OF RURAL ENGLAND Channel 5's beloved Yorkshire Vet Peter Wright brings us a heartwarming love letter to the ...

Selma is scared of the sea but when some whales beach themselves, she has to be brave. Can she help to save the whales? White Band books typically ...

Reducere. This book gives close attention to the poetry and plotting of six Shakespeare plays, three tragedies (Coriolanus, Richard III, and King Lear) and t...

'Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself' WittgensteinFascinating account of the man who overturned the world of philosophical thought.

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Sequel to the New York Times bestseller Amari and the Night Brothers! Artemis Fowl meets Men in Black in this magical second book in the New York T...

Publisher: Radio Society of Great BritainAuthor(s): Peter DoddNumber of pages: 128Publication date: 2011Dimensions: 175 x 239 x 7Cover type: Paperb...

Many books chronicle the remarkable life of Peter the Great, but none analyze how his famous reforms took root and spread in Russia. By century's e...

Reducere. The Great French Revolution, 1789-1793 is Peter Kropotkin's most substantial historical work. In it he presents a people's history of the world-sha...