Hunted through Central Asia: On the Run from Lenin's Secret Police - Couverture souple

Nazaroff, Paul

 
9780192803689: Hunted through Central Asia: On the Run from Lenin's Secret Police
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ISBN 10 : 0192803689 ISBN 13 : 9780192803689
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 1990

Synopsis

'My position was uncomfortable. Here was I, in an absolutely exposed place, with Red Guards and commissars on every side. I had very little money left and no means of transport at all.'

Paul Nazaroff was the ringleader of a desperate plot to overthrow the Bolsheviks in Central Asia in 1918. He was betrayed to the Secret Police, who declared him 'the most dangerous counter-revolutionary at large in the Tashkent region'.

Thus began his extraordinary catalogue of adventures, 'a long and distant odyssey which would take me right across Central Asia . . . over the Himalayas to the plains of Hindustan'.

As he fled from Lenin's men, he was aided by the indigenous peoples of the region, the Kirghiz and the Sarts, whose language and culture had been steeped in since boyhood. For months he was forced to live the life of a hunted animal.

Peter Hopkirk has contributed a fascinating introduction to this tale of hair-breadth 'scapes and survival against all odds, as well as an epilogue which reveals Nazaroff's later fortunes.

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À propos de l?auteur

Paul Nazaroff was educated in Moscow and St Petersburg. His career as a geoloist, minerologist, and mining engineer was interrupted by the Bolshevick Revolution, which prompted him to become a counter-revolutionary agent. A man of wide sympathies and encyclopaedic knowledge, he was also highly skilled in the fields of ornithology, archaeology, ballistics, and botany, and was an accomplished linguist, huntsman, and taxidermist.

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press
Date d'édition
1990
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0192803689
ISBN 13 
9780192803689
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
352
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780192852953: Hunted Through Central Asia

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0192852957 ISBN 13 :  9780192852953
Editeur : Oxford Paperbacks, 1993
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