Hunted Through Central Asia

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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! and for months he was forced to live the life of a hunted animal. Peter Hopkirk has contributed a fascinating introduction to this thrilling tale of espionage and survival against all odds! as well as an epilogue which reveals Nazaroff's later fortunes. Zusammenfassung Paul Nazaroff was the ringleader of a desperate plot to overthrow the Bolsheviks in Central Asia in 1918. Betrayed to Lenin's Secret Police, he was forced to live like an animal hunted across Central Asia, the Himalayas and the plains of Hindustan. This is his tale. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Preface 1: Awaiting Execution 2: Release 3: Days of Wrath 4: Hiding among the Sarts 5: Persecution and alarms 6: Home life among the Sarts and Kirghiz 7: Hiding among the Kirghiz 8: Alone with nature 9: The white lady 10: The road to Semirechie 11: Pishpek 12: In Semirechie 13: Hiding in the hills 14: Danger again 15: Back on the trail 16: Safety in sight 17: Desolation 18: Despair 19: One last effort 20: At last! Epilogue Index ...

Product details

• Authors: Paul Nazaroff, Nazaroff Paul
• Assisted by: Peter Hopkirk (Introduction), Hopkirk Peter (Introduction)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.08.2002
• EAN: 9780192803689
• ISBN: 978-0-19-280368-9
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 196 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Survival, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, HISTORY / Asia / General, HISTORY / World, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Political activism, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Asian History, True stories of heroism, endurance & survival, General and world history, True stories of heroism, endurance and survival, Political activism / Political engagement