News From Tartary
5 best books like News From Tartary (Peter Fleming): Arabian Sands, Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia, The Washing of the Spears: A History of the Rise of the Zulu Nation Under Shaka and Its Fall in the Zulu War of 1879, Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game & the Race for Empire in Central Asia, The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997
| Author | Wilfred Thesiger |
| ISBN | 0140095144 |
"Arabian Sands" is Wilfred Thesiger's record of his extraordinary journey through the parched "Empty Quarter" of Arabia. Educated at Eton and Oxford, Thesiger was repulsed by the softness and rigidity of Western life-"the machines, the calling cards, the meticulously aligned streets." In the...
In 1996, Tom Bissell went to Uzbekistan as a naive Peace Corps volunteer. Though he lasted only a few months before illness and personal crisis forced him home, Bissell found himself entranced by this remote land. Five years later he returned to explore the shrinking Aral Sea, destroyed by Soviet irrigation...
| Author | Donald R. Morris |
| ISBN | 0306808668 |
Filled with colorful characters, dramatic battles like Isandhlwana and Rorke's Drift, and an inexorable narrative momentum, this unsurpassed history details the sixty-year existence of the world's mightiest African empire; from its brutal formation and zenith under the military genius Shaka...
| Author | Karl E. Meyer |
| ISBN | 0465045766 |
From the romantic conflicts of the Victorian Great Game to the war-torn history of the region in recent decades, Tournament of Shadows traces the struggle for control of Central Asia and Tibet from the 1830s to the present. The original Great Game, the clandestine struggle between Russia and Britain...
The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997
| Author | Piers Brendon |
| ISBN | 0224062220 |
No empire has been larger or more diverse than the British Empire. At its apogee in the 1930s, 42 million Britons governed 500 million foreign subjects. Britannia ruled the waves and a quarter of the earth's surface was painted red on the map. Where Britain's writ did not run directly, its influence,...
