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City of Djinns by William Dalrymple
$24.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir | 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
From the Holy Mountain by William Dalrymple
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
In the spring of 587 A.D., 2 men set out from the great desert monastery of St Theodosius, near Bethlehem. It was the start of an extraordinary journey across the entire Byzantine world, and William Dalrymple has followed in their footsteps.
India by Steve Mccurry; William Dalrymple
$89.99 AUD
Category: Photographic/Gift
India explores the lives of everyday people in extraordinary settings through the lens of Steve McCurry, one of the most admired photographers working today. This portfolio of emotive and beautiful photographs from India features 150 previously unpublished images taken across the Indian subcontinent, ...Show more
Koh-I-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond by William Dalrymple
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Category: Fashion | Reading Level: very good
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 Maharajah of the Punjab was ushered into the magnificent Mirrored Hall at the centre of the great Fort in Lahore. There, in a public c ...Show more
Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India by William Dalrymple
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
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
Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India by William Dalrymple
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Vintage Departures
From the author of "The Last Mughal," an enlightening book that explores with remarkable compassion and expansive insight nine varieties of religious devotion in India today. In portraits of people we might otherwise never know William Dalrymple distills his twenty-five years of travel in India to explo ...Show more
Return of a King : The Battle for Afghanistan by William Dalrymple
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Category: World History/Politics | 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: The Battle for Afghanistan by William Dalrymple
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Category: World History/Politics
From William Dalrymple--award-winning historian, journalist and travel writer--a masterly retelling of what was perhaps the West's greatest imperial disaster in the East, and an important parable of neocolonial ambition, folly and hubris that has striking relevance to our own time.With access to newly d ...Show more
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple
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Category: World History/Politics
In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish a new administration in his richest provinces. Run by English merchants who collected taxes using a ruthless private army, this new regime saw the East India Company transform itself from an international ...Show more
The Anarchy - The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple
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Category: World History/Politics | Reading Level: very good
'Dalrymple is a superb historian with a visceral understanding of India - A book of beauty' Gerard DeGroot, The Times In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish in his richest provinces a new administration run by English merchants who collected ...Show more
The Anarchy - The Rise and Fall of the East India Company (H/B) by William Dalrymple
$49.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics | Reading Level: near fine
In August 1765 the East India Company defeated and captured the young Mughal emperor and forced him to set up in his richest provinces a new government run by English traders who collected taxes through means of a vast and ruthless private army. The creation of this new government marked the moment that ...Show more
White Mughals - Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India by William Dalrymple
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Category: World History/Politics | Reading Level: good
White Mughals is the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that transcended all the cultural, religious and political boundaries of its time.James Achilles Kirkpatrick was the British Resident at the court of Hyderabad when he met Khair-un-Nissa
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