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The Art Museumby Karl E. MeyerISBN 0688004695 (0-688-00469-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Dust of Empire: The Race for Mastery in the Asian Heartlandby Karl E. MeyerISBN 1586482416 (1-58648-241-6)
Softcover, Public Affairs
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dust of Empire: The Race for Mastery in The Asian Hearthland'Book summary:When Charles de Gaulle learned that France's former colonies in Africa had chosen independence, the great general shrugged dismissively, "They are the dust of empire." But as Americans have learned, particles of dust from remote and seemingly medieval countries can, at great human and material cost, jam the gears of a superpower.[via]
In The Dust of Empire, Karl E. Meyer examines the present and past of the Asian heartland in a book that blends scholarship with reportage, providing fascinating detail about regions and peoples now of urgent concern to America: the five Central Asian republics, the Caspian and the Caucasus, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and long-dominant Russia. He provides the context for America's war on terrorism, for Washington's search for friends and allies in an Islamic world rife with extremism, and for the new politics of pipelines and human rights in an area richer in the former than the latter. He offers a rich and complicated tapestry of a region where empires have so often come to griefa cautionary tale.More editions of The Dust of Empire: The Race for Mastery in the Asian Heartland:
- The Dust of Empire: The Race for Mastery in the Asian Heartland: ISBN 1586480480 (1-58648-048-0)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group - The Dust of Empire : The Race for Mastery in the Asian Heartland: ISBN 0349117438 (0-349-11743-8)
Softcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited - The Dust of Empire: The Race for Mastery in The Asian Hearthland: ISBN 1586482416 (1-58648-241-6)
Softcover, Public Affairs
- The Dust of Empire: The Race for Mastery in the Asian Heartland: ISBN 1586480480 (1-58648-048-0)
Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle Eastby Karl E. MeyerISBN 039306199X (0-393-06199-X)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Pundits, Poets and Wits: An Omnibus of American News Paper Columnsby Karl E. MeyerISBN 0195071379 (0-19-507137-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asiaby Karl E. Meyer , Shareen Blair BrysacISBN 0349113661 (0-349-11366-1)
Softcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia'Book summary:Throughout the 19th century and well into the 20th, the Russian and British Empires played out a chess game of diplomacy, espionage, and military thrusts into Central Asia to protect their expanding interests. When play began, the frontiers of their empires lay 2,000 miles apart, across vast deserts and almost impassable mountain ranges; by the end, they were separated by only 20 miles. Karl E. Meyer of The New York Times and Shareen Blair Brysac, documentary filmmaker for CBS, update and significantly expand earlier studies of the imperial rivalry, notably Peter Hopkirk's pioneering The Great Game. Tournament of Shadows reads like a racy adventure story, yet there is no need for the authors to embellish their well-researched facts. The region attracted a host of bizarre characters, each with his own idiosyncratic goals. The authors begin with the journey to Bokhara of an ambitious horse doctor, hired by the East India Company in 1806 to improve its breeding stock, and end with the CIA's assistance to anti-Chinese guerrillas in Tibet during the cold war. American participants in the opening of Central Asia have not previously received much attention, but Tournament of Shadows introduces adventurers such as William Rockhill, commissioned by the Smithsonian Institution in the 1880s to explore Tibet, and William McGovern, who, to the chagrin of the British, reached Lhasa in 1923. The wealth and instability of Central Asia continue to keep the region in the headlines, motivating the Soviet Union's disastrous 10-year intervention in Afghanistan and fueling an international race for resources--especially oil--today. --John Stevenson [via]
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- Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game And the Race for Empire in Central Asia: ISBN 0465045766 (0-465-04576-6)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group - Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia: ISBN 0316855898 (0-316-85589-8)
Hardcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited - Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia: ISBN 0349113661 (0-349-11366-1)
Softcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
- Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game And the Race for Empire in Central Asia: ISBN 0465045766 (0-465-04576-6)
Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asiaby Karl E. Meyer , Shareen Blair BrysacISBN 158243106X (1-58243-106-X)
Softcover, Counterpoint
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia'Book summary:Throughout the 19th century and well into the 20th, the Russian and British Empires played out a chess game of diplomacy, espionage, and military thrusts into Central Asia to protect their expanding interests. When play began, the frontiers of their empires lay 2,000 miles apart, across vast deserts and almost impassable mountain ranges; by the end, they were separated by only 20 miles. Karl E. Meyer of The New York Times and Shareen Blair Brysac, documentary filmmaker for CBS, update and significantly expand earlier studies of the imperial rivalry, notably Peter Hopkirk's pioneering The Great Game. Tournament of Shadows reads like a racy adventure story, yet there is no need for the authors to embellish their well-researched facts. The region attracted a host of bizarre characters, each with his own idiosyncratic goals. The authors begin with the journey to Bokhara of an ambitious horse doctor, hired by the East India Company in 1806 to improve its breeding stock, and end with the CIA's assistance to anti-Chinese guerrillas in Tibet during the cold war. American participants in the opening of Central Asia have not previously received much attention, but Tournament of Shadows introduces adventurers such as William Rockhill, commissioned by the Smithsonian Institution in the 1880s to explore Tibet, and William McGovern, who, to the chagrin of the British, reached Lhasa in 1923. The wealth and instability of Central Asia continue to keep the region in the headlines, motivating the Soviet Union's disastrous 10-year intervention in Afghanistan and fueling an international race for resources--especially oil--today. --John Stevenson [via]
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The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic 1910 - 13by Karl E. Meyer , Shareen Blair BrysacISBN 1885283121 (1-885283-12-1)
Hardcover, Adventure Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic 1910 - 13'Book summary:As Apsley Cherry-Garrard states in his introduction to the harrowing story of the Scott expedition to the South Pole, "Polar Exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised." Cherry-Garrard's The Worst Journey in the World is a gripping account of an expedition gone disastrously wrong. The youngest member of Scott's team, the author was later part of the rescue party that eventually found the frozen bodies of Scott and three men who had accompanied Scott on the final push to the Pole. These deaths would haunt Cherry-Garrard for the rest of his life as he questioned the decisions he had made and the actions he had taken in the days leading up to the Polar Party's demise.
Prior to this sad denouement, Cherry-Garrard's account is filled with details of scientific discovery and anecdotes of human resilience in a harsh environment. Each participant in the Scott expedition is brought fully to life. Cherry-Garrard's recollections are supported by diary excerpts and accounts from other teammates. Despite the sad fate of Scott, the reader will grudgingly agree with the closing words of The Worst Journey in the World: "Exploration is the physical expression of the Intellectual Passion. And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore.... If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg." [via]
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