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“Great Games” on the Crossroads of High Asia

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Wakhan Quadrangle: Exploration and espionage during the Great Game, KreutzmannHermann, Weisbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-447-1044-9-4 (hbk), maps, sketches, drawing, photos, tables, end notes, bibliography, glossary, index, 282 pp.
Pamirian Crossroads: Kirghiz and Wakhi of High Asia, KreutzmannHermann, Weisbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-447-1044-9-4 (hbk), maps, sketches, drawing, photos, tables, end notes, bibliography, glossary, index, 559 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

M. Nazif Shahrani
M. Nazif Shahrani*
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Indiana University, Bloomington
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Iranian Studies , Volume 52 , Issue 3-4: Special Section: Commercial, Confessional, and Military Encounters in Ottoman-Iranian Borderlands in the Early Modern Period , July 2019 , pp. 611 - 620
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