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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*
Affiliation:
Indiana University, Bloomington

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Copyright © Association For Iranian Studies, Inc 2019

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