The Peshawar Lancers - Questions

[Ivan Druzhkov]

I though he looked familiar!

I've finally figured out where I've seen the character of Ignatieff before. He's based on a real person, namely Captain Count Nicholas Pavlovich Ignatiev. Similar to Stirling's Ignatieff, he had one blue eye and one half-blue/half-brown. He shows up in the book Flashman at the Charge, and more or less scares the crap out of Mr. Flashman.

 

[Grey Wolf]

I've finally figured out where I've seen the character of Ignatieff before. He's based on a real person, namely Captain Count Nicholas Pavlovich Ignatiev. Similar to Stirling's Ignatieff, he had one blue eye and one half-blue/half-brown. He shows up in the book Flashman at the Charge, and more or less scares the crap out of Mr. Flashman.

Interesting, I had always credited Putiatin with the successful Chinese mission. I wish there were more information in English on such matters !

Grey Wolf

 

[joatsimeon@aol.com]

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Okay, I FINALLY got ahold of this book, and am slowly working my way through it. I am wondering about a few things though.

*Why is there so much cannibalism?

-- there isn't all that much any more. It's not a viable long-term dietary choice.... The memory remains vivid, though.

>*Why the hell are the Russians cannibals AND devil-worshippers? Granted, losing the "third Rome" and the Tsar to a comet is bad, but how does abandoning Christianity altogether happen?

-- they came to the conclusion that God had been defeated by Satan. In the period of the Fall, this looked fairly reasonable... . The cannibalism is mostly ceremonial by the time of TPL.

>*Why does it seem to be taking so long to recivilize Britain? You'd think there'd be plenty of people interested in going back, and the actual work of setting up a colony wouldn't be that hard.

-- for the first generation or two, people are too busy elsewhere. After that... well, sentimental attachments aside, it's a dreary little island with a bad climate.

*The Germans are all dead, aren't they?

-- pretty well, except for some neo-savages.

 

[Landshark]

After that... well, sentimental attachments aside, it's a dreary little island with a bad climate.

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

 

[Flocculencio]

I've finally figured out where I've seen the character of Ignatieff before. He's based on a real person, namely Captain Count Nicholas Pavlovich Ignatiev. Similar to Stirling's Ignatieff, he had one blue eye and one half-blue/half-brown. He shows up in the book Flashman at the Charge, and more or less scares the crap out of Mr. Flashman.

Speaking of Flashman, I like the way that Stirling implies that he's an ancestor of Athelstane King

The pertinent parts are where King looks at a portrait of one of his ancestors "a distant relation of the Paget family, credited with doing incredible deeds during the reign of the first Victoria". King also uses the Maltese Cross defence that is Flashman's last resort when forced into swordfights and refers to it as "an old family trick" IIRC.

 

[Ivan Druzhkov]

Say, I'm thinking of revising the Pesawar Earth Map I did, and I was wondering if there is any specifics about how Central and South America are divided up.

 

[joatsimeon@aol.com]

"Say, I'm thinking of revising the Pesawar Earth Map I did, and I was wondering if there is any specifics about how Central and South America are divided up"

-- nothing specific about Central America, IIRC. South America has a large empire centered on Rio and various other successor states.

 

[Claudius]

Say, I'm thinking of revising the Pesawar Earth Map I did, and I was wondering if there is any specifics about how Central and South America are divided up.

In the TL I'm working on Peshawar Lancers Redux- North America (shameless plug ) the eastern US is depopulated from Maine to Florida, the interior is just sorting things out potitically and the west coast is more or less intact but isolated. Mexico survives and is getting ambitious and Central America is forming a republic in response to Mexican adventurism. It's likely that Venezuala was badly damaged by the tsunamis and that Columbia is a regional power. In PL, Stirling specifically mentions the Empire of Brazil as being very powerful. Where do you have the map posted? I'd love to see it.