The Dust of Empire: The Race for Mastery in the Asian Heartland
by Karl Meyer
this is a great book on the stans, India, Pakistan, Iran, Georgia, and Central Asia overall. I’m reading The Great Game at the same time as this book. highly recommend it
The Dust of Empire: The Race for Mastery in the Asian Heartland
by Karl Meyer
this is a great book on the stans, India, Pakistan, Iran, Georgia, and Central Asia overall. I’m reading The Great Game at the same time as this book. highly recommend it
Would be curious to compare insights between that and fictional work (alternative history) such as “Years of Rice and Salt” by Kim Stanley Robinson.
http://www.librarything.com/work/23185/book/3656456
Quite a broad swath of culture and history to fit into any one text, in any case.