MISSION TO TASHKENT
Written by F.M. Bailey, Peter Hopkirk
Published by Folio Society
in 1999
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MISSION TO TASHKENT
Written by F.M. Bailey, Peter Hopkirk.
Stock no. 1830600
1st thus.
1999.
Hardback.
Nearly fine condition.
Introduction and Epilogue by Peter Hopkirk. Burgundy cloth spine with gilt title, pictorial paper boards. Burgundy endpapers. B/w photos. xxiii and 269 pages including index. A lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase.
Front cover
Contents
- Introduction : An Absolutely First-Class Man
- Author's Introduction
- 1 Persia to Kashgar
- 2 Kashgar to Tashkent
- 3 Tashkent
- 4 Conditions in Tashkent
- 5 Alone
- 6 Arrested
- 7 I Disappear
- 8 To the Mountains
- 9 The Bee-Farm
- 10 In Troitskoe
- 11 Return to Tashkent
- 12 Tashkent Again
- 13 Local Bolshevism
- 14 Spring Activities
- 15 Summer Difficulties
- 16 Back to the Mountains
- 17 Tashkent Affairs
- 18 To Kagan
- 19 On to Bokhara
- 20 Bokhara
- 21 Plans for Departure
- 22 In the Desert
- 23 Across the Murghab
- 24 Frontier Skirmish
- 25 Safe in Meshed
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2: List of Butterflies
- Epilogue: The Last Prayer in the Great Game
- Index