Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bengal (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 1272
Book Description
The Bengal and Agra Annual Guide and Gazetteer, for 1841-
Author: The Bengal and Agra Annual Guide and Gazetteer
Author: Catalogue
Author: Calcutta (India). Imperial libraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Author-catalogue of printed books in European languages. With a supplementary list of newspapers. 1904. 2 v
Author: Author-catalogue of printed books in European languages. With a supplementary list of newspapers. 1904. 2 v
Author: Imperial Library, CalcuttaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
The Rhinoceros of South Asia
Author: Kees RookmaakerPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004691545
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 891
Book Description
The rhinoceros is an iconic animal. Three species once inhabited South Asia, two of which disappeared over a century ago. This survey aims to reconstruct the historical distribution of these large mammals resulting in new maps showing the extent of their occurrences. Thousands of sources varied in time and nature are used to study the interactions between man and rhinoceros. The text is supported by over 700 illustrations and 38 maps showing the importance of the rhinoceros in the scientific and cultural fabric of Asia and beyond.
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland
Author: Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and IrelandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
List of members.
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society
Author: Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and IrelandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Author: The King's Shadow
Author: Edmund RichardsonPublisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250278600
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Impeccably researched, and written like a thriller, Edmund Richardson's The King's Shadow is the extraordinary untold and wild journey of Charles Masson - think Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid meets Indiana Jones - and his search for the Lost City of Alexandria in the "Wild East" during the age of empires, kings, and spies. 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, deserter, pilgrim, doctor, archaeologist, spy, one of the most respected scholars in Asia, and the greatest of nineteenth-century travelers. On the way into one of history's most extraordinary stories, he 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.