![]() Yet, despite having traveled extensively in Central Asia, backpacking and by jeep, the kind of creative nonfiction employed by the likes of William Dalrymple and others is nowhere in evidence. He writes in a popular style that dispenses with footnotes. He is also a collector of nineteenth-century books and maps. Map historians know that as with the Cook expeditions of the late eighteenth century, new kinds of mapping or cartographic practice emerged as a result of this “game” as well as new kinds of cross-cultural scientific techniques, which is what makes at least the title of Dean's book tantalizing.ĭean is an amateur historian, a well-traveled engineer with an MBA who was born in Fiji and now works as a consultant in Wellington, New Zealand. That story always seems to leave one wondering whether the Great Game was something of actual significance or more of a media event designed to sell books to the British public along the lines of Stanley and Livingstone. ![]() ![]() Riaz Dean's Mapping the Great Game retells a relatively well-known story that has been attempted many times. ![]()
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