Central Asia
I’m fascinated by the region surrounding the Himalayas. I’ve already mentioned the blog Field Force to Lhasa which printed the letters from Cecil Mainprise while on an expedition through Tibet. The idea was that each letter would be posted on the date it was sent, so if a letter was sent on May 7, 1903, the blog would post that letter on May 7, 2009. June 12, 1904 would be posted on June 12, 2010 and so on. I also pointed to the Orwell Trust, which was doing the same thing with George Orwell’s diaries from 1938-42.
The Indian blog Varnam recently had a three part series about an Indian spy and an English tea planter dramatically crossing paths in Kashgar at the height of the Great Game. The story is like out of a Kipling tale. (part 1, part 2, part 3)
