Murder in the Hindu Kush

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 and controversies 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 Asia in the 21st century.

Intr-o stralucitoare dimineata de iulie din 1870, exploratorul britanic George Hayward a fost ucis brutal in Hindu Kush. Cine era el, ce il adusese in acest loc salbatic si de ce a fost ucis? Povestita integral pentru prima data, aceasta este povestea captivanta a calatoriei lui Hayward de la o copilarie din Yorkshire la un loc in fruntea „Marelui Joc” dintre Rajul Britanic si Imperiul Rus si despre cum, condus de „un nebun dorinta ", a traversat Himalaya de Vest, incalcit de capetenii despotici si a ajuns pe partea gresita atat a Rajului, cat si a puternicului Maharaja din Kashmir. Este, de asemenea, povestea conspiratiilor si controverselor care i-au inconjurat moartea, in timp ce propriile calatorii ale autorului pe urmele lui Hayward aduc povestea la zi si dezvaluie modul in care ecourile Marelui Joc inca repercuteaza in Asia Centrala in secolul XXI.