The Horse that Leaps Through Clouds : A Tale of Espionage, the Silk Road and the Rise of Modern China Product Form:Hardback Walter and Ross

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The Horse that Leaps Through Clouds : A Tale of Espionage, the Silk Road and the Rise of Modern China Product Form:Hardback Walter and RossDescription Two epic journeys along the Silk Road, past and present, offer a riveting and cautionary tale about the breathtaking rise of China. On July 6, 1906, Baron Gustaf Mannerheim boarded the midnight train from St. Petersburg, charged by Czar Nicholas II to secretly collect intelligence on the Qing Dynasty's sweeping reforms that were radically transforming China. The last czarist agent in the so called Great Game, Mannerheim, who would receive