lost in a terrible way It appears to have been a British officer named Arthur Conolly who first called it "the Great Game. " He played it gallantly, along the Himalayan frontier and in the deserts and oases of Central Asia, and lost in a terrible way: an Uzbek emir cast him for two months into a well which was filled with vermin and reptiles, and then what remained of him was brought up and beheaded. ... [مشاهده متن کامل]
