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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Mild water damage to top page edge. Otherwise good, very readable condition.

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Softcover. Condition: Fine. AEG (Alderac Entertainment Group) Spycraft 1.0 (d20) Battlegrounds (EX)Manufacturer: AEG (Alderac Entertainment Group)Product Line: Spycraft 1.0 (d20)Type: SoftcoverCode: AEG1812Copyright Date: 2005Page Count: 128Please review the condition and any condition notes for the exact condition of this item. All pictures are stock photos. The condition of the item you will receive is EX. Our grading system is explained in the terms of sale section of our bookseller page. Please feel free to contact us with any questions. Product Description:You can't tell them where you're going. You can't tell them when you're getting back. But you can tell them what to do if you don't come home.Every airdrop against a moonless night promises intrigue, another chance to own the field - or die trying. You're a veteran of the global espionage scene, but how are you when the bullets start flying so fast you can't count them anymore? Where do you hide when even the scenery turns against you? This isn't your home turf - and those aren't your garden-variety henchmen. This indispensable Spycraft play-aid introduces the realms of squad combat and battlefield subterfuge. Enter one of five furious war zones tailored for rapid-fire game play. Leap into the fray against impossible odds; drop the latest episode of your classic superspy epic into the trenches of modern conflict. One evening, one battle, but victory can live forever!Slick single-night Spycraft sessions for small military and espionage squads Information for using several major military backdrops in your games! The ultimate companion for every midnight warrior!A brand new setting - after the bombs drop! Visit Spycraft's view of the end of the world, complete with rules for radiation and chemical poisoning, weapons of mass destruction, alternate gear rules, and more!

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Very good. Photozincograph print on four sheets, dissected and mounted on linen for folding, with marbled end paper. Contemporary wash and outline color, manuscript pencil notation showing travelers' routes and geographical corrections. Size 42.5 x 58 Inches. This monumental c. 1869 British intelligence map from the height of the Great Game details the southern frontier of the Russian Empire in Asia, extending southwards to the British sphere of influence in Afghanistan, the Punjab and Kashmir. This represented the primary theatre of the Great Game - the struggle for control in Central Asia between Russia and the British Empire. The map includes numerous manuscript annotations and updates including records of George Hayward's ill-fated reconnaissance (spy) mission into the Pamirs. A Closer Look The western part of the map reaches as far as the Aral Sea and Kashmar, formerly Torsh?z (???) in Persia. The eastern limits of the map are dominated by the Chinese Empire. The lands covered are today divided between Kazakhstan in the north, Uzbekistan across the center, Kyrgyzstan in the east, Tajikistan in the southeast, and Turkmenistan in the southwest. This represented the primary theatre of The Great Game - the struggle for control in Central Asia between Russia and the British Empire. Not Intended for Publication The map is a photozincographic executed in Dehra Dun by the Survey of India then under the leadership of J. T. Walker. The process, favored for speed and economy, sacrificed certain elements of quality: creases in the original are evident in this copy, for example. Such maps were not intended for commercial use, however, and such flaws were acceptable when a map was time sensitive. Consequently, survey maps thus reproduced were often intended for use in the gathering and governmental dissemination of new geographical information, often for espionage and military intelligence. This certainly seems to be the case with this example. Printed in 1868, the map bears manuscript notations that place the map's use in the next year, or 1870 at the latest. The Russian Push into Central Asia The map captures the peak of Russian expansionism in Central Asia. The manuscript additions and coloring highlights three specific areas. In the south, bordered in red, is the British sphere of influence in northern India, inclusive of parts of what are now Pakistan and Nepal. Kashmir is shown as well. In the northern portions of the map, yellow and green hand color marks the limits of the Sirdaria District (Sirdaryo Region of Uzbekistan) and the Semirechensk District (Semirechyenskaya Oblast, now southeastern Kazakhstan and northeastern Kyrgyzstan.) Sirdaryo This is the region of central Uzbekistan along the left bank of the Syr Darya River. Most of the region is desert, as is accurately indicated on the map. In 1873, much of this area - notably the Zarafshan valley in the Kyzylkum desert (Kizil Kim on the map) would be made a Russian protectorate according to a treaty signed in Qarshi. This map was produced at the time this was being made a fait accompli. The Semirechyenskaya District This region was part of the Khanate of Kokand (1709 - 1876.) Weakened by civil war, the Khanate fell prey to Russia. Semirechyenskaya was assimilated into Russia in 1854; Tashkent seized in 1865; and Khujand in 1867. Kokand became a Russian vassal state in 1868, and Russian control over the region was formally recognized in the 1881 Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Russia and China. All of this was well in motion at the time this map was produced, and it was likely called for expressly to analyze new data coming to light with respect to this strategic area. The Hayward Expeditions Pencil notations mark the 1868 and 1869 journeys of ill-fated English explorer George Jonas Whitaker Hayward (c. 1839 - 1870). The detail part of his efforts to find the source of the Oxus River (Amu Darya), and to explore the Pamir Mountains. He was so tasked by Sir Henry Creswicke R.

Very good. Slight toning due to fold metric. Size 37.5 x 42.25 Inches. This is an impressive, large-scale 1873 Russian-language map of central Asia during the Great Game, compiled by the Imperial Russian Topographic Depot for the 1873 Invasion of Khiva, with manuscript annotations detailing a British spy's travels. A Closer Look Coverage extends from the Black Sea to Nepal and from the Persian Gulf to the Bay of Bengal. The area covered includes the Caspian and Aral Seas, the Persian Gulf, and the modern-day Central Asian nations of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Iran, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan, as well as parts of Russia, China, and northern India. As such, the map captures the peak of Russian expansionism in Central Asia, highlighting the region that became Russian Turkestan and later Soviet Central Asia. A Spy's Voyage in Manuscript The map chronicles a voyage in red and brown manuscript from Saratov (???????) to Bukhara, Samarkand, and Tashkent, with a detour to the Amu Darya or Oxus River. Based on the manuscript notes, which are in English, we can assume that the traveler was a native English speaker but well-connected with Russian authorities and likely fluent in Russian. Distances between points are marked in Versts, a now obsolete Russian measurement roughly equivalent to a kilometer. Our mysterious traveler began his voyage in 1870 at Saratov, the last stop on the Ryazan-Ural Railroad. From Saratov, he traveled south, hitting the north shore of the Caspian Sea near Astrakhan before orienting southeast, skirting the western shore of the Aral Sea. From that point, he followed the Amu Darya River, bypassed Russian-controlled Khiva, and headed for Bukhara instead. He moved eastward from Bukhara to Samarkand, took a southernly detour to the Amu Darya, and reached the river near Termez, at the border with British-controlled Afghanistan, before he returned to his route and headed east to Samarkand and from thence northeast to Jizzakh and Tashkent. We have been unable to correlate this journey with any known voyage, but very few English speakers traveled through this region in the 1870s. The voyage marked here somewhat (but not exactly) matches the travels of Eugene Schuyler (1840 - 1890). Schuyler was an American diplomat serving in the American legation at Saint Petersburg. He received a special dispensation from Russian authorities to visit newly conquered Central Asia. His 8-month voyage caused a sensation in Europe and America, documenting a world near-unknown to anyone except Russians, Persians, and the indigenous population for the first time. Accounts of Schuyler's travels were published by the National Geographic Society, but he also issued a long confidential report for the U.S. Department of State. The only other major 1870s voyage to this area by an English speaker was undertaken by American New York Herald reporter Januarius Aloysius MacGahan (1844 - 1878), who heard about the invasion of Khiva in St. Petersburg and, evading Russian authorities, crossed the deserts east of the Aral Sea in time to witness the fall of Khiva - during which he was embedded with Russian forces and sanctioned by the Russian General, Kaufmann. While the voyage depicted here is not that of Schuyler or MacGahan, the significance of both voyages underscores just how little known and visited this region was for English speakers. Instead of a well-publicized and sanctioned voyage like Schuyler's, or intrepid reporting like MacGahan, the travels marked here are of a more clandestine nature, representing British spycraft following the Russian seizure of Khiva in 1873 - which also led to the publication of this map, a major revision and advancement over the 1863 first edition. This explains why the traveler steered clear of Khiva, which would otherwise have been a natural stop. Spycraft also explains the curious detour to the Amu Darya River en route from Bukhara to Samarkand - the traveler was meeting with British agents.