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India by Steve Mccurry; William Dalrymple
100.00 NZD
Category: Travel
India explores the lives of everyday people in extraordinary settings through the lens of Steve McCurry, one of the most admired photographers working today. This portfolio of emotive and beautiful photographs from India features 150 previously unpublished images taken across the Indian subcontinent, ...Show more
Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India by William Dalrymple
30.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
A Buddhist monk takes up arms to resist the Chinese invasion of Tibet - then spends the rest of his life trying to atone for the violence by hand printing the best prayer flags in India. A Jain nun tests her powers of detachment as she watches her best friend ritually starve herself to death. Nine peopl ...Show more
Return of a King : The Battle for Afghanistan by William Dalrymple
37.00 NZD
Category: History
A towering history of the first Afghan War by bestselling historian William Dalrymple. In the spring of 1839, the British invaded Afghanistan for the first time. Led by lancers in scarlet cloaks and plumed shakos, nearly 20,000 British and East India Company troops poured through the high mountain passe ...Show more
Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan: The Battle for Afghanistan by William Dalrymple
25.00 NZD
Category: History
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 newly d ...Show more
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple
25.00 NZD
Category: History
In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish a new administration in his richest provinces. Run by English merchants who collected taxes using a ruthless private army, this new regime saw the East India Company transform itself from an international ...Show more
The Anarchy: The Rise and Fall of the East India Company by William Dalrymple
33.00 NZD
Category: History
'Dalrymple is a superb historian with a visceral understanding of India - A book of beauty' Gerard DeGroot, The Times In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish in his richest provinces a new administration run by English merchants who collected ...Show more
White Mughals - Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India by William Dalrymple
27.00 NZD
Category: History
White Mughals is 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 Hyderabad when he met Khair-un-Nissa
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