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City of Djinns by William Dalrymple
$27.00 NZD
Category: No Category | 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
$30.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general | 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.
From the Holy Mountain - A Journey among the Christians of the Middle East by William Dalrymple
$40.00 NZD
Category: No Category
In 587 AD, two monks set off on an extraordinary journey that would take them in an arc across the entire Byzantine world, from the shores of the Bosphorus to the sand dunes of Egypt. On the way, John Moschos and his pupil Sophronius the Sophist stayed in caves, monasteries, and remote hermitages, colle ...Show more
India by Steve Mccurry; William Dalrymple
$100.00 NZD
Category: General Travel
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 This portfolio of emotive and beautiful photographs from India features 150 previously unpublished images taken across the Indian subcontinent, ...Show more
Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India by William Dalrymple
$30.00 NZD
Category: General 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
Return of a King : The Battle for Afghanistan by William Dalrymple
$37.00 NZD
Category: World 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
$28.00 NZD
Category: World 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
$28.00 NZD
Category: World 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
$33.00 NZD
Category: World 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
The Last Mughal - The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857 by William Dalrymple
$60.00 NZD
Category: World History | 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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