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Persia in the Great Game : Sir Percy Sykes, Explorer, Consul, Soldier, Spy, Caught between Russia and British India. Persia was a powerless pawn in the Great Game. Sykes, a bluff, tough soldier-scholar, was sent by Army Intelligence to explore its wild, unknown eastern border country and to set up a network of informants to keep , Persia in the Great Game : Sir Percy Sykes, Explorer, Consul, Soldier, Spy
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  • Persia in the Great Game : Sir Percy Sykes, Explorer, Consul, Soldier, Spy
  • Written by author Antony Wynn
  • Published by John Murray Publishers Ltd, 2004/01/05
  • Caught between Russia and British India. Persia was a powerless pawn in the Great Game. Sykes, a bluff, tough soldier-scholar, was sent by Army Intelligence to explore its wild, unknown eastern border country and to set up a network of informants to keep
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Illustrations ix
Foreword xi
Maps xv
Prologue 1
1. Into the Great Game 4
2. In disguise to Samarqand 9
3. Meeting the Prince 14
4. Terriers in Baluchistan 24
5. Side-saddle to Kerman 38
6. Baluchi boundary 55
7. Fever and fanatics 63
8. Murder on the coast 70
9. The race to Sistan 84
10. Boer War and marriage 97
11. Return to Kerman 107
12. Meshed: mullas, spies and pilgrims 124
13. Constitution and carve-up 150
14. Dealing with Dabizha 178
15. Saving Persia single-handed 204
16. Kashgar and the Pamirs 236
17. South Persia Rifles 248
18. Under attack 272
19. Triumph or fiasco? 291
20. The end of the game? 313
Postscriptum 326
Chronology 327
Glossary of Persian terms 329
Persian names and transliteration 331
Acknowledgements 332
Select bibliography 333
Index 335


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