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Back in the day when men were men and Britain ruled the world, the two great world powers went head to head over control of central Asia - from the Caucasus to Kabul. This was the stage of open warfare but also espionage, subterfuge and reckless adventure. Following on from the derring do of ''''Shooting Leave'''', John Ure tells the story of British soldiers, missionaries and mercenaries, horse traders and opportunists who travelled to make t...

A Tour Round the World is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1885. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes t...

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No-one who wasn't mad as a hatter would try to take a horse across the Andes by one of the highest passes between Chile and the Argentine. That was what John Ure was told on his way to take up his diplomatic posting with the British Embassy in Santiago in the early 1970s. Disregarding the sceptics, the author prepared to ride across the hazardous mountains by studying accounts of those who had travelled in earlier centuries. An excellent examp...

bTitle:/b A Tour round the World. By an ex-Lord Provost of Glasgow (J. Ure).br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include a...

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The book provides a completely new and comprehensive analysis of the policies adopted throughout the region that have led to the explosive growth of this sector.

This volume provides a full analysis and comprehensive account of the telecommunications industry in the developing economies of South East and East Asia. This reprinted edition contains a new epilogue for 1997.

Ure, who lived in Moscow in the 1950s, brings to life the stories of those British whistle-blowers who exposed the brutal machinations of the Soviet Union and the reign of terror which gripped Russia after the revolution in 1917. These British adventurers were novelists, diplomats, spies, scholars, journalists and clergymen.

No-one who wasn't mad as a hatter would try to take a horse across the Andes by one of the highest passes between Chile and the Argentine. That was what John Ure was told on his way to the British Embassy in Santiago-so he set out to find a few certifiable kindred spirits. The journey they made was an amateur adventure, not a solemn expedition. As problems arose - how many mules, for example, do you need to carry 540 eggs, a storm tent and hay...

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Offers a comprehensive analysis of the policies adopted throughout the region that have led to the explosive growth of the telecommunications sector. This book reviews global best practices across a range of key issues facing the telecommunications industry.