Bibliograph

The lost kings, Lancaster, York & Tudor, Amy Licence

Type

Label

The lost kings, Lancaster, York & Tudor, Amy Licence

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The lost kings

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Amy Licence

Sub title

Lancaster, York & Tudor

Summary

On a bright July morning in 1870 the British explorer George Hayward was brutally murdered high in the Hindu Kush. Who was he, what had brought him to this wild spot, and why was he killed? Told in full for the first time, this is the gripping tale of Hayward's journey from a Yorkshire childhood to a place at the forefront of the 'Great Game' between the British Raj and the Russian Empire, and of how, driven by 'an insane desire', he crossed the Western Himalayas, tangled with despotic chieftains and ended up on the wrong side of both the Raj and the mighty Maharaja of Kashmir. It is also the tale of the conspiracies that surrounded his death, while the author's own travels in Hayward's footsteps bring the story up to date, and reveal how the echoes of the Great Game still reverberate across Central Asiain the twenty-first century

Target audience

adult

Classification