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73 produkter
Guldvägen : hur det forntida Indien förändrade världen
Inbunden, 2026
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (8)
299 kr
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Indiska museisamlingar besitter enligt uppgifter fler romerska mynt än i något annat land utanför imperiets gränser. Exporten till Rom var så betydande att senatorer med kraft ville stoppa det valutautflöde som blev följden. Det var inte bara exklusiva tyger och kryddor som fann sin marknad i Rom …
The Golden Road
How Ancient India Transformed the World
Pocket, 2025
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
159 kr
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For a millennium and a half, India was a confident exporter of its diverse civilisation, creating around it a vast empire of ideas. Indian art, religions, technology, astronomy, music, dance, literature, mathematics and mythology blazed a trail across the world, along a Golden Road that stretched …
Anarchy
The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
Häftad, 2020
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
175 kr
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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 …
Golden Road
How Ancient India Transformed the World
Inbunden, 2024
209 kr
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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA Waterstones and TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARA SPECTATOR and History Today BOOK OF THE YEAR A revolutionary new history of the diffusion of Indian ideas, from the award-winning, bestselling author and co-host of the chart-topping Empire podcast‘Richly woven, …
Return of a King
The Battle for Afghanistan
Häftad, 2014
198 kr
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2013'As taut and richly embroidered as a great novel . . . a masterpiece' Sunday Telegraph'Dazzling' Sunday Times | 'Magnificent' Guardian | 'Sparkling' Daily TelegraphA towering history of the first Afghan War by bestselling historian William Dalrymple.In …
Golden Road
How Ancient India Transformed the World
E-bok, 2024
188 kr
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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Waterstones and TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR A SPECTATOR and History Today BOOK OF THE YEAR A revolutionary new history of the diffusion of Indian ideas, from the award-winning, bestselling author and co-host of the chart-topping Empire podcast ''Richly …
White Mughals
Love and Betrayal in 18th-Century India
Häftad, 2003
253 kr
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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.James Achilles Kirkpatrick was the British Resident at the court of …
City of Djinns
Häftad, 1994
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
144 kr
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‘Could you show me a djinn?’ I asked. ‘Certainly,’ replied the Sufi. ‘But you would run away.’From the author of the Samuel Johnson prize shortlisted ‘The Return of a King’, this is William Dalrymple’s captivating memoir of a year spent in Delhi, a city watched over and protected by the mischievous …
From the Holy Mountain
A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium
Häftad, 1998
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
167 kr
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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.In AD 587, two monks, John Moschos and Sophronius the Sophist, embarked on an extraordinary journey across the Byzantine world, from the …
In Xanadu
A Quest
Häftad, 1990
166 kr
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One of the most successful, influential and acclaimed travel books of recent years from the author of ‘Return of a King’, which has been shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize.At the age of twenty-two, William Dalrymple left his college in Cambridge to travel to the ruins of Kublai Khan’s stately …
Age of Kali
Travels and Encounters in India
Häftad, 1999
179 kr
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William Dalrymple, who wrote so magically about India in ‘City of Djinns’, returns to the country in a series of remarkable essays.Featured in its pages are 15-year-old guerrilla girls and dowager Maharanis; flashy Bombay drinks parties and violent village blood feuds; a group of vegetarian …
Begums, Thugs and White Mughals
Av Fanny Parkes, William Dalrymple
Häftad, 2002
177 kr
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Fanny Parkes, who lived in India between 1822 and 1846, was the ideal travel writer - courageous, indefatigably curious and determinedly independent. Her delightful journal traces her journey from prim memsahib, married to a minor civil servant of the Raj, to eccentric, sitar-playing Indophile, …
Love Letter to Europe
An outpouring of sadness and hope – Mary Beard, Shami Chakrabati, Sebastian Faulks, Neil Gaiman, Ruth Jones, J.K. Rowling, Sandi Toksvig and others
Av Frank Cottrell Boyce, William Dalrymple m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
134 kr
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How are great turning points in history experienced by individuals?As Britain pulls away from Europe great British writers come together to give voice to their innermost feelings. These writers include novelists, writers of books for children, of comic books, humourists, historians, biographers, …
Age of Kali
Travels and Encounters in India (Text Only)
E-bok, 2012
120 kr
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William Dalrymple, who wrote so magically about India in `City of Djinns’, returns to the country in a series of remarkable essays.Featured in its pages are 15-year-old guerrilla girls and dowager Maharanis; flashy Bombay drinks parties and violent village blood feuds; a group of vegetarian …
City of Djinns
E-bok, 2011
121 kr
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`Could you show me a djinn?’ I asked. `Certainly,’ replied the Sufi. `But you would run away.’From the author of the Samuel Johnson Prize-shortlisted `The Return of a King’, this is William Dalrymple’s captivating memoir of a year spent in Delhi, a city watched over and protected by the mischievous …
From the Holy Mountain
A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium (Text Only)
E-bok, 2012
102 kr
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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.In AD 587, two monks, John Moschos and Sophronius the Sophist, embarked on an extraordinary journey across the Byzantine world, from the …
In Xanadu
A Quest (Text Only)
E-bok, 2012
102 kr
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One of the most successful, influential and acclaimed travel books of recent years from the author of `Return of a King’, which has been shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize.At the age of twenty-two, William Dalrymple left his college in Cambridge to travel to the ruins of Kublai Khan’s stately …
White Mughals
Love and Betrayal in 18th-Century India (Text Only)
E-bok, 2012
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
118 kr
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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.James Achilles Kirkpatrick was the British Resident at the court of …
City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
Häftad, 2003
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
372 kr
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Last Mughal
E-bok, 2007
188 kr
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In this evocative study of the fall of the Mughal Empire and the beginning of the Raj, award-winning historian William Dalrymple uses previously undiscovered sources to investigate a pivotal moment in history. The last Mughal emperor, Zafar, came to the throne when the political power of the …
Nine Lives
In Search of the Sacred in Modern India
E-bok, 2010
221 kr
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From the author of The Last Mughal (“A compulsively readable masterpiece” — The New York Review of Books ), an exquisite, mesmerizing book that illuminates the remarkable ways in which traditional forms of religious life in India have been transformed in the vortex of the region’s rapid change—a …
Return of a King
The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42
E-bok, 2013
142 kr
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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 …
