10 must-read adventure books like Foreign Devils on the Silk Road by Peter Hopkirk

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Foreign Devils on the Silk Road

By: Peter Hopkirk

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

s/t: The Search for the Lost Cities & Treasures of Chinese Central Asia The Silk Road, which linked…

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Cover of 1356 (The Grail Quest, #4) by Bernard Cornwell

1. 1356 (The Grail Quest, #4)

By: Bernard Cornwell

4.14

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Go with God and Fight Like the Devil. A fascinating hero and the pursuit of a sword with mythical p… read more

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  • adventure
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2. Red Dusk and the Morrow: Adventures and Investigations in Soviet Russia

By: None , Paul Henry Dukes

4.39

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

An extraordinary true life espionage classic and a fascinating document of the horror and excesses … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • adventure
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3. Kim

By: Rudyard Kipling , None

2.86

Format: 358 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Kim is set in an imperialistic world; a world strikingly masculine, dominated by travel, trade and … read more

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  • adventure
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4. The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine

By: Robert Conquest

4.23

Format: 510 pages, Paperback

The Harvest of Sorrowis the first full history of one of the most horrendous human tragedies of the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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5. The Ministry of Fear

By: Graham Greene , Alan Furst

3.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

For Arthur Rowe, the trip to the charity fete was a joyful step back into adolescence, a chance to … read more

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6. Island of the Blue Foxes: Disaster and Triumph on the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition

By: Stephen R. Bown

4.11

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

The immense 18th-century scientific journey, variously known as the Second Kamchatka Expedition or … read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • adventure
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7. On Horseback Through Asia Minor

By: Peter Hopkirk , Frederick Burnaby

3.99

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In the savage winter of 1876 Captain Frederick Burnaby rode 1,000 miles eastwards from Constantinop… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • adventure
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8. Foreign Devils on the Silk Road

By: Peter Hopkirk

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

s/t: The Search for the Lost Cities & Treasures of Chinese Central Asia The Silk Road, which linked… read more

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  • history
  • adventure
  • travel
  • asia
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • archaeology

9. Shadow of the Silk Road

By: Colin Thubron

3.88

Format: None pages,

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10. Operation Kronstadt: The True Story of Honor, Espionage, and the Rescue of Britain's Greatest Spy, The Man with a Hundred Faces

By: None

4.45

Format: 122 pages, Hardcover

Part Blackhawk Down, part The Riddle of the Sands, former MI6 officer Harry Ferguson has written an… read more

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11. Drive (Drive, #1)

By: James Sallis

3.00

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

Set mostly in Arizona and L.A., Drive is about a man who does stunt driving for movies by day and d… read more

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12. The Prefect (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #1)

By: Alastair Reynolds

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a policeman of sorts, and one of the best. His force is Panoply, and his … read more

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13. The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

By: William Dalrymple

4.20

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

The story of how the East India Company took over large swaths of Asia, and the devastating results… read more

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  • asia
  • nonfiction
  • history
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14. The Roads Chosen

By: Ben Carlyle

4.12

Format: 394 pages, Paperback

Inspired by the author’s own unnerving experiences during decades spent in the former Soviet Union.… read more

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  • adventure
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15. A Chosen Path

By: Ben Carlyle

4.43

Format: None pages, Paperback

Rebecca’s father, Edward, scoots Sam Mitchell from Bangkok to London. Boris Voikevich, only days… read more

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  • adventure
Cover of The Habsburgs: To Rule the World by Martyn Rady

16. The Habsburgs: To Rule the World

By: Martyn Rady

3.85

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The definitive history of the dynasty that dominated Europe for centuries In The Habsburgs, Mart… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Ghost Ship (The Joubert Family Chronicles, #3) by Kate Mosse

17. The Ghost Ship (The Joubert Family Chronicles, #3)

By: Kate Mosse

4.05

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Next in the #1 Sunday Times bestselling series, New York Times bestselling author Kate Mosse return… read more

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  • adventure
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18. The Story Of "St 25" - Adventure And Romance In The Secret Intelligence Service In Red Russia

By: Paul Dukes

4.82

Format: 380 pages, Hardcover

None read more

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  • history
Cover of Security and Special Operations: SOE and MI5 During the Second World War by Christopher J. Murphy

19. Security and Special Operations: SOE and MI5 During the Second World War

By: Christopher J. Murphy

4.38

Format: 265 pages, Hardcover

This volume offers the first comprehensive history of the Security Section of the Special Operation… read more

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  • history
Cover of Go Spy the Land: Being the Adventures of IK8 of the British Secret Service (Dialogue Espionage Classics) by George Alexander Hill

20. Go Spy the Land: Being the Adventures of IK8 of the British Secret Service (Dialogue Espionage Classics)

By: George Alexander Hill

4.15

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Before espionage entered the era of modern technology, there was the age of George Alexander a tim… read more

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  • history
  • adventure

10 must-read history books like Foreign Devils on the Silk Road by Peter Hopkirk

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Red Dusk and the Morrow: Adventures and Investigations in Soviet Russia

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4.39

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The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine

Robert Conquest

4.23

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Island of the Blue Foxes: Disaster and Triumph on the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition

Stephen R. Bown

4.11

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On Horseback Through Asia Minor

Peter Hopkirk , Frederick Burnaby

3.99

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Persians: The Age of the Great Kings

Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

4.06

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Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

Tom Holland

4.22

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Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918

Katja Hoyer

4.17

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The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History

Alexander Mikaberidze

4.34

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