Wakhan Quadrangle: Exploration and Espionage During and After the Great Game

by Hermann Kreutzmann and Chair of Cultural Geography and Director of the Geographical Institute Hermann Kreutzmann

The Wakhan Quadrangle became an arena of colonial competition when four powers - Afghanistan, China, Great Britain and Russia - struggled for dominance in a remote mountain region where only scattered communities lived in a challenging environment - called the "Great Game". Prior to this, various international travellers had been sent out, commissioned to record routes, military details and strategic information for the respective parties in the contest...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3447108126
• ISBN13: 9783447108126
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Harrassowitz
• Length: 282 Pages