Tournament of Shadows
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Tournament of Shadows
| Full title | Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia |
|---|---|
| Author | Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac |
| Published | 1999 |
| Pages | 647 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Karl Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac’s history of the Great Game, told through the individual agents, surveyors, missionaries and adventurers who played it — the British and Russian contest for Central Asia across the nineteenth century and into the twentieth. |
Where I heard about it
- A crowd-sourced X thread — in the replies to @typesfast’s question “What’s the best history book you’ve read?” (the thread, June 2025); the full list is on What’s the best history book… (tweet).
Connections
- What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the thread this came out of; the full recovered list lives there.
- History
What links here
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