Forestry Handbook - Part II, Hay R. Dalrymple

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
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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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: William Dalrymple
Название: White Mughals
ISBN: 0006550967 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780006550969
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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: William Dalrymple
Название: Nine Lives
ISBN: 1408801248 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781408801246
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Автор: Dalrymple William
Название: Koh-I-Noor
ISBN: 140888884X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781408888841
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, G. Brent
Название: Ancient earth, ancient skies
ISBN: 0804749337 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780804749336
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Описание: Planet Earth and the other bodies of the Solar System are 4.5 billion years old. They reside in a galaxy that is 12-14 billion years old, and are part of a universe that is 13-15 billion years old. This book reviews the evidence that has led scientists to these conclusions and describes the methods by which this evidence has been gathered.