A Person from England by MacLean, Fitzroy

A Person from England (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781448205240)

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A Person from England by MacLean, Fitzroy

A Person from England

$20.99
A Person from England by MacLean, Fitzroy

A Person from England

$20.99
Format: Paperback
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The legendary cities of Turkestan - Merv, Khiva, Bokhara and Samarkand - have long exerted a romantic fascination upon Western travellers. During the last century, men of many nationalities have played what they and their contemporaries have called "The Great Game" - travelling throughout Central Asia. The author revives memories of the agents and travellers - official and unofficial, military and civilian - who have visited the Khanates of Turkestan, relating their adventures and attempting to recreate the atmosphere and flavour of the region. Extremely well written, Fitzroy Maclean captures a way of life that is fast disappearing.

Author: Fitzroy MacLean
ISBN-10: 1448205247
ISBN-13: 9781448205240
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 12/20/2012
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.47lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.97d
By Fitzroy MacLean
By Fitzroy MacLean
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Sir Fitzroy Hew Royle Maclean of Dunconnel, 1st Baronet KT CBE (1911-1996) was a Scottish soldier, writer and politician. He was a Unionist MP from 1959 to 1974 and was one of few people who entered World War II as a private and left having risen to the rank of Brigadier.

Maclean wrote several books, including Eastern Approaches, in which he recounted three extraordinary series of adventures: travelling, often incognito, in Soviet Central Asia; fighting in the Western Desert Campaign, where he specialized in commando raids behind enemy lines; and living rough with Tito and his Yugoslav Partisans. It has been speculated that Ian Fleming used Maclean as one of his inspirations for James Bond.

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