Peter Hopkirk
Biographic Data
| ID | 468892 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Hopkirk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Hopkirk |
| SIGNATURE | HOPKIRK P |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia
Foreign Devils on the Silk Road
Setting the East Ablaze: Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asia
A DANGEROUS NEW TWIST IN THE GREAT GAME In this gripping narrative Peter Hopkirk tells how Lenin and his revolutionary comrades tried, in the period between the two world wars, to set the East ablaze with their heady new gospel of Marxism. Their dream was to liberate the whole of Asia, and their starting point was British India, the richest of all imperial possessions. The bloody struggle that ensued, the full story of which has never been told, …
The Silk Road
Foreign Devils on the Silk Road
Foreign devils on the Silk Road: The search for the lost cities and treasures of Chinese Central Asia
The Silk Road, which linked imperial Rome and distant China, was once the greatest thoroughfare on earth. Along it traveled precious cargoes of silk, gold and ivory, as well as revolutionary new ideas. Its oasis towns blossomed into thriving centers of Buddhist art and learning. In time it began to decline. The traffic slowed, the merchants left and finally its towns vanished beneath the desert sands to be forgotten for a thousand years; however,…
Foreign devils on the Silk Road: The search for the lost cities and treasures of Chinese Central Asia
The Silk Road, which linked imperial Rome and distant China, was once the greatest thoroughfare on earth. Along it traveled precious cargoes of silk, gold and ivory, as well as revolutionary new ideas. Its oasis towns blossomed into thriving centers of Buddhist art and learning. In time it began to decline. The traffic slowed, the merchants left and finally its towns vanished beneath the desert sands to be forgotten for a thousand years; however,…
The Silk Road
Foreign Devils on the Silk Road
Setting the East Ablaze: Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asia
A DANGEROUS NEW TWIST IN THE GREAT GAME In this gripping narrative Peter Hopkirk tells how Lenin and his revolutionary comrades tried, in the period between the two world wars, to set the East ablaze with their heady new gospel of Marxism. Their dream was to liberate the whole of Asia, and their starting point was British India, the richest of all imperial possessions. The bloody struggle that ensued, the full story of which has never been told, …
Foreign Devils on the Silk Road
The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia
Archaeology (3 works) · SILK (3 works) · Telecommunications (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · China (2 works) · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations (2 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (2 works) · Engineering (2 works)