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City of Djinns by William Dalrymple
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: good
Sparkling with irrepressible wit, City of Djinns peels back the layers of Delhi's centuries-old history, revealing an extraordinary array of characters along the way-from eunuchs to descendants of great Moguls. With refreshingly open-minded curiosity, William Dalrymple explores the seven "dead" cities o ...Show more
Koh-i-Noor by Anita Anand William Dalrymple
$19.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
The first comprehensive and authoritative history of the Koh-i-Noor, arguably the most celebrated and mythologised jewel in the world.On 29 March 1849, the ten-year-old maharaja of the Punjab was ushered into the magnificent Mirrored Hall at the centre of the great fort in Lahore. There, in a public cer ...Show more
Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India by William Dalrymple
$22.99 AUD
Category: TRAVEL
A Buddhist monk takes up arms to resist the Chinese invasion of Tibet - then spends the rest of his life trying to atone for the violence by hand printing the best prayer flags in India. A Jain nun tests her powers of detachment as she watches her best friend ritually starve herself to death. Nine peopl ...Show more
Return of a King : The Battle for Afghanistan by William Dalrymple
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
A towering history of the first Afghan War by bestselling historian William Dalrymple. In the spring of 1839, the British invaded Afghanistan for the first time. Led by lancers in scarlet cloaks and plumed shakos, nearly 20,000 British and East India Company troops poured through the high mountain passe ...Show more
Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan - SIGNED by William Dalrymple
$145.00 AUD
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE
In the spring of 1839, the British invaded Afghanistan for the first time. Led by lancers in scarlet cloaks and plumed shakos, nearly 20,000 British and East India Company troops poured through the high mountain passes and re-established on the throne Shah Shuja ul-Mulk. On the way in, the British faced ...Show more
The Last Mughal - The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857 by William Dalrymple
$30.00 AUD
$59.95 (49% off)
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
'By God Delhi is not a city now, it is a desert ... Sometimes I wonder if it was only in my dreams that there was once a city by this name in the dominions of India.'At 4pm on a dark, wet winter's evening in November 1862, a cheap plywood coffin was buried to the eerie sound of silence: no lamentations, ...Show more
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