The politics of travel and exploration: with specific reference to Eastern or Chinese Turkestan, 1865-1908
As Russian territorial acquisitions in central Asia posed an ever-increasing threat to India and British strategies to meet this threat vacillated, it was the activities of a small number of adventurers which upheld British interests beyond the frontier and provided intelligence to the authorities....
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University of the West of England, Bristol
2013
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