Grief and Other Stories, Dalrymple Theodore

Автор: Dalrymple, William
Название: The Anarchy
ISBN: 1408864398 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781408864395
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Описание: THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARFINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019A FINANCIAL TIMES, OBSERVER, DAILY TELEGRAPH, WALL STREET JOURNAL AND TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'Dalrymple is a superb historian with a visceral understanding of India ... A book of beauty' - Gerard DeGroot, The TimesIn 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 trading corporation into something much more unusual: an aggressive colonial power in the guise of a multinational business.

William Dalrymple tells the remarkable story of the East India Company as it has never been told before, unfolding a timely cautionary tale of the first global corporate power.

Автор: William Dalrymple
Название: City of Djinns
ISBN: 0006375952 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780006375951
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: As Dalrymple's first book, "In Xanadu", traversed thousands of miles, now he traverses thousands of years. In the course of 12 months in Delhi, he peels back the successive encrusting layers of history, using both material and human remains of each of the eight cities of Delhi, interlacing innumerable stories with the present and ending with the Delhi creation myth contained in the great Indian epic "The Mahabharata".

Автор: Dalrymple William
Название: The Last Mughal
ISBN: 1408800926 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781408800928
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Описание: A stunning and bloody history of nineteenth-century India and the reign of the Last Mughal by the bestselling author of White Mughals

Автор: Dalrymple William
Название: Return of a King
ISBN: 1408831597 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781408831595
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Описание: 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 little resistance.

But after two years of occupation, the Afghan people rose in answer to the call for jihad and the country exploded into violent rebellion. The First Anglo-Afghan War ended in Britain's greatest military humiliation of the nineteenth century: an entire army of the then most powerful nation in the world ambushed in retreat and utterly routed by poorly equipped tribesmen. Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2013, Return of a King is the definitive analysis of the First Afghan War, told through the lives of unforgettable characters on all sides and using for the first time contemporary Afghan accounts of the conflict.

Prize-winning and bestselling historian William Dalrymple's masterful retelling of Britain's greatest imperial disaster is a powerful and important parable of colonial ambition and cultural collision, folly and hubris, for our times.

Автор: William Dalrymple and Anita Anand
Название: Koh-i-Noor
ISBN: 1408888823 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781408888827
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Описание: 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 ceremony, the frightened but dignified child handed over great swathes of the richest country in India in a formal Act of Submission to a private corporation, the East India Company.

He was also compelled to hand over to the British monarch, Queen Victoria, perhaps the single most valuable object on the subcontinent: the celebrated Koh-i Noor diamond. The Mountain of Light. The history of the Koh-i-Noor that was then commissioned by the British may have been one woven together from gossip of Delhi bazaars, but it was to become the accepted version.

Only now is it finally challenged, freeing the diamond from the fog of mythology that has clung to it for so long. The resulting history is one of greed, murder, torture, colonialism and appropriation told through an impressive slice of south and central Asian history. It ends with the jewel in its current controversial setting: in the crown of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.

Masterly, powerful and erudite, this is history at its most compelling and invigorating.

Автор: Dalrymple Farel
Название: Proxima Centauri Volume 1
ISBN: 1534310290 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781534310292
Издательство: Image Comics
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Описание: Teenage wizard adventurer Sherwood Breadcoat is trapped on Proxima Centauri, a manufactured dimensional sphere 4.243 light-years from Earth. Looking for escape and a way back to his brother, Sherwood also has to deal with his confusing emotions, alien creatures, and all sorts of fantastic dangers. PROXIMA CENTAURI is a psychedelic science fantasy action comic book drama starring Sherwood Breadcoat, "The Scientist" Duke Herzog, Dr. EXT the Time Traveler, the ghost M. Parasol, Shakey the Space Wizard, and Dhog Dahog. Collects PROXIMA CENTAURI #1-6

Автор: Dalrymple William
Название: Nine Lives
ISBN: 1408878194 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781408878194
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Описание: Award-winning, critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling William Dalrymple takes us to the heart of an undiscovered India

Автор: Dalrymple William
Название: Nine lives: in search of the sacred in modern india
ISBN: 0307474461 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780307474469
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 2023.00 р.
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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 explore the challenges faced by practitioners of traditional forms of faith in contemporary India. For two months a year, a man in Kerala divides his time between jobs as a prison warden and a well-builder and his calling as an incarnate deity. A temple prostitute watches her two daughters die from AIDS after entering a trade she regards as a sacred calling. A Jain nun recalls the pain of watching her closest friend ritually starve herself to death.

Together, these tales reveal the resilience of individuals in the face of the relentless onslaught of modernity, the enduring legacy of tradition, and the hope and honor that can be found even in the most unlikely places.

Автор: William Dalrymple
Название: White Mughals
ISBN: 0006550967 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780006550969
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: From the author of the Samuel Johnson prize-shortlisted `Return of a King`, the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that transcended all the cultural, religious and political boundaries of its time.

Автор: Dalrymple Farel
Название: Pop Gun War: Chain Letter
ISBN: 1534301925 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781534301924
Издательство: Image Comics
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Описание: Stuck in a small town with a broke down van Emily goes on a walk. After following some shady characters through subterranean tunnels she discovers three video monitors showing stories from a magical present, dreamy past, and strange future. In this long awaited sequel to the award winning and criticality acclaimed graphic novel POP GUN WAR: GIFT, author and creator of THE WRENCHIES, FAREL DALRYMPLE revisits his world of surreal urban fantasy.

Автор: William Dalrymple
Название: From the Holy Mountain
ISBN: 0006547745 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780006547747
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Описание: A rich blend of history and spirituality, adventure and politics, laced with the thread of black comedy familiar to readers of William Dalrymple`s previous work.

Автор: Dalrymple William
Название: The Age of Kali
ISBN: 0307948900 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780307948908
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: From the author of The Last Mughal and Nine Lives the classic stories he gathered during the ten years he spent journeying across the Indian subcontinent, from Sri Lanka and southern India to the North West Frontier of Pakistan. As he searched for evidence of Kali Yug, the "age of darkness" predicted by an ancient Hindu cosmology in a final epoch of strife and corruption, Dalrymple encountered a region that thrilled and surprised him. Venturing to places rarely visited by foreigners, he presents compelling portraits of a diverse range of figures--from a Hindi rap megastar through the Tamil Tigers to the drug lords of Pakistan. Dalrymple's love for the subcontinent comes across in every page, which makes its chronicles of political corruption, ethnic violence and social disintegration all the more poignant. The result is a dark yet vibrant travelogue, and a unique look at a region that continues to be marked by rapid change and unlimited possibilities as it struggles to reconcile the forces of modernity and tradition.