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Review: "Setting the East Ablaze" by Peter Hopkirk
 (Oxford
University Press - 252 pages)
Reviewer - Luke Brown
Spies, politics and those
eeevil communists' attempt to wrest influence from Her Majesty in
Asia. Gadzooks!
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Review: "Karma Cola" by Gita Mehta
 (Penguin
- 193 pages)
Reviewer - Luke Brown
Marketing the mystic
East. The idiots who go to India looking for instant enlightenment
and the hustlers waiting to welcome them. Talk about Karma!
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Review: "The Gilgit Game" by John Keay
 (Oxford
University Press - 277 pages)
Reviewer - Luke Brown
The explorers of the
Western Himalayas 1865-1895.
Book
Review: "The Great Game" by Peter Hopkirk
 (Oxford
University Press - 562 pages)
Reviewer - Luke Brown
On the secret service
in high Asia, the machinations of imperial intrigue, spies, politics
and more light-hearted fun.
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Review: "See No Evil" by
Robert Baer
(Crown Publishers - 284 pages) (Luke Brown)
"The true story
of a ground soldier in the CIA's war on terrorism."
 All-purpose
Camera Review
(Lucian Dixon)
The Nikonos V "underwater"
camera. The best all-purpose camera in the world. Oh yes…it
is.
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Review: "Shah of Shahs" by
Ryszard Kapuscinski
(Vintage Books - 152 pages) (Luke
Brown)
Describes the events
leading to the fall of the last Shah of Iran and the bringing in
of the Islamic Revolution. A timeless work of literary journalism.
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Review: "The Mystery of Capital"
by Hernando de Soto
(Bantam Press - 243 pages) (Luke Brown)
Hernando de Soto asks the question, "Why Capitalism triumphs
in the West and fails everywhere else?" He has come up with
a persuasive answer.
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Review: "Crimes Against Humanity" by
Geoffrey Robertson
(Rob Wood)
Attempts to document
and explain the progress of the attempts to adopt human rights standards
throughout the world. Highly recommended.
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Review "With Lawrence in Arabia"
by Lowell Thomas
(1924) (Hutchinson &
Co. - 317 pages) (Rob Wood)
The author travelled
with the English adventurer and soldier, Colonel T.E. Lawrence,
to help "stimulate enthusiasm" for the Allied cause in
War World One.
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Review: "India: A History" by
John Keay
(HarperCollins - 576 pages) (Luke
Brown)
5,000 years of history
in one book. And some of the names of people are really long.
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Review: "Pakistan: A Modern History" by
Ian Talbot
(Hurst & Company, London - 432 pages) (Luke
Brown)
Did someone say something
about a coup?
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Review: "Caucasus" by
Nicholas Griffin
(Review - 240 pages) (Luke
Brown)
"Mountain Men and
Holy Wars"
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Review: Route 66 AD by
Tony Perrottet
(Angie Morton)
Following the route of
ancient generals from Pompeii to Egypt.
Kit
Multi-tool Review (Rob
Wood)
Unfortunately
the best multi-tools will cost you your first-born. Having lost
two Leathermans then, I opted for the much cheaper option. Enter
the "Kit" multi-tool.
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