Alexandria

Alexandria
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 373
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ISBN-10 : 9781526603791
ISBN-13 : 1526603799
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Book Synopsis Alexandria by : Edmund Richardson

Download or read book Alexandria written by Edmund Richardson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Not all lost cities are real, but this one was.' The extraordinary story of Alexander the Great's lost city, and a quest to unravel one of the most captivating mysteries in ancient history. 'Superb ... impeccably researched, but with the pace and deftly woven plot complexity of a John le Carré novel ... utterly brilliant' William Dalrymple, Guardian '[An] exceptional biography ... This is a jewel of a book' Sunday Times 'A brilliant and evocative biography, written with consummate scholarship, great style and wit' Daily Telegraph ______ For centuries the city of Alexandria Beneath the Mountains was a meeting point of East and West. Then it vanished. In 1833 it was discovered in Afghanistan by the unlikeliest person imaginable: Charles Masson, an ordinary working-class boy from London turned deserter, pilgrim, doctor, archaeologist and highly respected scholar. On the way into one of history's most extraordinary stories, Masson would take tea with kings, travel with holy men and become the master of a hundred disguises; he would see things no westerner had glimpsed before and few have glimpsed since. He would spy for the East India Company and be suspected of spying for Russia at the same time, for this was the era of the Great Game, when imperial powers confronted each other in these staggeringly beautiful lands. Masson discovered tens of thousands of pieces of Afghan history, including the 2,000-year-old Bimaran golden casket, which has upon it the earliest known face of the Buddha. He would be offered his own kingdom; he would change the world, and the world would destroy him. This is a wild journey through nineteenth-century India and Afghanistan, with impeccably researched storytelling that shows us a world of espionage and dreamers, ne'er-do-wells and opportunists, extreme violence both personal and military, and boundless hope. At the edge of empire, amid the deserts and the mountains, it is the story of an obsession passed down the centuries. **Chosen as a Book of the Year by the Spectator, Listener and Sydney Morning Herald**


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