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Hopkirk, Peter

The late Peter Hopkirk spent over 30 years in Fleet Street as a reporter and foreign correspondent before turning full-time author. He travelled widely over the regions in which his books are set, including China, Russia and Iran, and his books have been translated into fourteen languages.

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article by, [1] 89; Quest for Kim, [57] 40; The Great Game, [74] 43

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20220601094009 Lesley Downer on Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game | Slightly Foxed Issue 74

Of Captains and Khans

Lesley Downer on Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game

Many years ago, when it was possible to do such things, I hitchhiked to India. I travelled through Iran and Afghanistan, saw the Great Buddhas at Bamiyan, and rode through the Khyber Pass on the roof of a brilliantly painted truck with my hair blowing in the wind. Later, as the world changed and carefree travel became more difficult, I came across Peter Hopkirk’s The Great Game (1990) and was thrilled to read about the adventures of the first western travellers to those regions in the nineteenth century.
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A Hanging in Wandsworth

Peter Hopkirk on Stewart McLoughlin, Wandsworth Prison

During my early Fleet Street years, in the 195o’s, we hacks were chillingly familiar with the grim ritual of hanging. I still remember with a shudder having to wait outside Wandsworth or some other prison as, inside, a condemned man was led by the chaplain from his cell to the waiting gallows. At the prison gates, as the execution hour approached, usually nine o’clock in the morning, one would see, trying desperately to comfort one another, a small group of the prisoner’s sobbing family.

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