Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game & the Race for Empire in Central Asia

5 best books like Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game & the Race for Empire in Central Asia (Karl E. Meyer): Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Salt: A World History, Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia, News From Tartary, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Author	Jared Diamond
ISBN	0143036556

Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of the essential books of our time, raising the urgent question: How can our world best avoid committing ecological suicide?

In his million-copy bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond...

Salt: A World History

Author	Mark Kurlansky
ISBN	0142001619

From the Bestselling Author of Cod and The Basque History of the World

In his fifth work of nonfiction, Mark Kurlansky turns his attention to a common household item with a long and intriguing history: salt. The only rock we eat, salt has shaped civilization from the very beginning, and its story...

Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia

Author

Tom Bissell

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...

News From Tartary

Author	Peter Fleming
ISBN	1843410036

In 1935 Peter Fleming, an editor for the London Times and, interestingly, Ian Fleming's older brother, set out from Peking for Kashmir. It was a 3500 mile journey across the roof of the world. He chose as his traveling companion Ella Maillart, a beautiful Swiss journalist. Fleming is one to underemphasize...

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

Author

Jack Weatherford

Genghis Khan and his Mongol Horde were good news for the world. Really. Not convinced? Consider the following:

1. Genghis Khan was an advocate of human rights, specifically freedom of religion, freedom from torture and free trade (he got two of the Four Freedoms right, which is pretty impressive...