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Hill of Devi
An Englishman serving at the Court of a Maharaja
Häftad, 2022
156 kr
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The novelist E. M. Forster opens the door on life in a remote Maharajah's court in the early twentieth century, a 'record of a vanished civilization.' Through letters from his time visiting and working there, he introduces us to a 14th century political system in 'the oddest corner of the world …
Letters from Egypt
Häftad, 2020
156 kr
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In 1862, Lucie Duff Gordon left her husband and three children in England and settled in Egypt, where she remained for the rest of her short life. Seeking respite from her tuberculosis in the dry air, she moved into a ramshackle house above a temple in Luxor, and soon became an indispensable member …
Turkish Embassy Letters
1716-1718
Häftad, 2021
156 kr
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Mary Montagu was one of the most extraordinary characters in the world. She was a self-educated intellectual, a free spirit, a radical, a feminist but also an entitled aristocrat and a society wit with powerful friends at court. In 1716 she travelled across Europe to take up residence in Istanbul …
Purple Land
An Adventure in Uruguay - the Banda Oriental
Av W. H. Hudson, Andreas Campomar
Häftad, 2019
213 kr
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The Purple Land is a romantic novel set in the war torn borderlands of Uruguay, the Banda Oriental. The story of Richard Lamb, an idealistic young Englishman, it begins with his abduction of Paquita and their escape from the vengeance of her Argentine father. Finding refuge in Montevideo, he is …
Quiet Evening
The Travels of Norman Lewis
Av Norman Lewis
Häftad, 2026
231 kr
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Collected here, from a period of nearly five decades, are thirty-six of Norman Lewis s best articles. In each, his writing crackles with poker-faced wit and stylistic brilliance. As a witness to his times the good, the bad and the absurd he was unmatched, and his instinct for important events, and …
Moroccan Trilogy
Rabat, Marrakesh and Fez
Av Jerome Tharaud, Jean Tharaud
Häftad, 2021
179 kr
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From 1917 19, the Tharaud brothers immersed themselves in Morocco while observing the determined imposition of the French Protectorate at first hand. With unique access to both colonial manoeuvres and a now-vanished Moroccan way of life, they settled for periods in Marrakesh, Rabat and Fez to …
Borderlines
A Journey in Thailand and Burma
Häftad, 2021
156 kr
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In 1986, Charles Nicholl travels through Thailand to learn about the spiritual traditions of forest Buddhism in the north of the country. But interesting things have a habit of getting in the way. When Nicholl meets Harry, an old French Indochina hand, on the night train north with his tales of …
One People
Av Guy Kennaway
Häftad, 2022
156 kr
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First published in 1997, it would be hard to find a publisher today for a white, male expatriate writing about the realities of life in a Jamaican hamlet.To make matters worse, Guy Kennaway wrote One People in the local patois. But this comic novel – sparkling with irreverent wit– is cherished in …
Three Women of Herat
Afghanistan 1973-77
Häftad, 2022
173 kr
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In 1973, the Afghans still had a King who ruled from a palace in Kabul with his own resident court of musicians when Veronica set up home in Herat. This Afghan city sat close to the Persian frontier and was fully cognisant of its glorious history as the capital of a once vast Central Asian Empire. …
Bengal Lancer
Häftad, 2021
179 kr
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Bengal Lancer is a complete one off. On one hand this book is a love affair with the spiritual traditions of India while on the other it is the memoir of a carefree young cavalry officer in the halcyon days of the British Empire. Francis Yeats-Brown proves himself exceptionally good company, both …
Christian Watt Papers
Memoirs of a Fraserburgh Fishwife
Av Christian Watt, David Fraser
Häftad, 2023
170 kr
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Caught between these covers is the authentic, forthright voice of Christian Watt, servant girl, ladys maid and fishwife. Born in 1833, her working life began in domestic service before the age of nine and ended with her selling her husbands catch from door to door. The tragic death of most of her …
