Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
417 kr
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- Häftad, Engelska, 2022
299 kr
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- Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
446 kr
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- Häftad, Engelska, 2022
316 kr
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- Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
429 kr
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- Häftad, Engelska, 2022
273 kr
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- Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
459 kr
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- Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
459 kr
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- Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
489 kr
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- Häftad, Engelska, 2023
326 kr
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- Häftad, Engelska, 2023
370 kr
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- Häftad, Engelska, 2023
326 kr
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- Häftad, Engelska, 2012
574 kr
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The writer William Knighton (c.1824-1900) spent much of his career in Sri Lanka and India. Published in 1855, this is an account of the court of the notorious Indian King Nussir-u-deen (c.1803-37), written from the viewpoint and using the testimony of an anonymous British member of the King's retinue. Richly descriptive, it is an intimate portrait of life in the service of a hedonistic sovereign so hated and paranoid that he feared his own family would try to poison him. He is characterised as a cruel and frivolous man who only trusted his sycophantic barber. As well as describing the lavish royal lifestyle, the narrator documents the King's thirst for hunting, for exotic-animal fights and for abusing and humiliating members of the royal family. This is a lurid and engrossing tale of a monarch in decline and the corruption and favouritism that led to his eventual assassination. - Häftad, Engelska, 2013
656 kr
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William Knighton (d.1900) published this history of Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka) in 1845. He spent most of his career there and in India, and published a number of vivid accounts of his experiences. This book surveys the ancient past of the island up to Knighton's own day, covering its many rulers and invaders as well as its shifting eras of unity and fracture into competing kingdoms. It gives an account of the first settlement, the establishment of Buddhism, the growth of the ancient capital Anuradhapura, the reign of Queen Anula (the first female ruler in Asia), the emergence of early Christianity, the development of the caste system, the medieval wars after the forming of the Jaffna Kingdom, the arrival of the Portuguese, the Dutch, and later the British invasion. Covering law, agriculture, arts, religion and language, this learned work remains relevant to students of Sri Lankan history and culture. - Häftad, Engelska, 2010
259 kr
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- Häftad, Engelska, 2011
402 kr
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- Häftad, Engelska, 2011
474 kr
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- Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
332 kr
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- Häftad, Engelska, 2014
188 kr
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- Häftad, Franska, 2022
194 kr
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- Häftad, Engelska, 2017
378 kr
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- Häftad, Engelska, 2021
221 kr
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- Häftad, Engelska, 2020
300 kr
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- Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
433 kr
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336 kr
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