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City of Djinns by William Dalrymple
24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | 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
Forgotten Masters - Painting for the East India Company by William Dalrymple
69.99 AUD
Category: Art
Published to coincide with the first UK exhibition of Indian paintings by the East India Company (at The Wallace Collection), these works are here presented as one of the great moments of Indian art. Company School painting was the result of commissions made by East India Company patrons from Indian art ...Show more
From the Holy Mountain by William Dalrymple
19.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | 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.
In Xanadu by William Dalrymple
24.95 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: Flamingo Ser. | Reading Level: very good
One of the most successful, influential and acclaimed travel books of recent years. At the age of twenty-two, William Dalrymple left his college in Cambridge to travel to the ruins of Kublai Khan's stately pleasure dome in Xanadu. This is an account of a quest which took him and his companions across th ...Show more
India by Steve Mccurry; William Dalrymple
89.95 AUD
Category: Photography
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 This portfolio of emotive and beautiful photographs from India features 150 previously unpublished images taken across the Indian subcontinent, ...Show more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 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 by William Dalrymple
24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | 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: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India by William Dalrymple
22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
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
29.99 AUD
Category: History | 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
19.99 AUD
Category: History
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
24.99 AUD
Category: History
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 Rise and Fall of the East India Company by William Dalrymple
29.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
'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