Alexandria

Alexandria

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Richardson, Edmund
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'One of the great stories of archaeology, exploration and espionage ... Le Carré meets Peter Hopkirk' - William Dalrymple

'Impressive ... Masson has at last found the intrepid biographer he has so long deserved' - John Keay

For centuries the city of Alexandria Beneath the Mountains was a meeting point of East and West. Then it vanished. In 1833 it was discovered in Afghanistan by the unlikeliest person imaginable: Charles Masson, an ordinary working-class boy from London turned deserter, pilgrim, doctor, archaeologist and highly respected scholar.

On the way into one of history's most extraordinary stories, Masson would take tea with kings, travel with holy men and become the master of a hundred disguises; he would see things no westerner had glimpsed before and few have glimpsed since. He would spy for the East India Company and be suspected of spying for Russia at the same time, for this was the era of the Great Game, when imperial powers confronted each other in these staggeringly beautiful lands. Masson discovered tens of thousands of pieces of Afghan history, including the 2,000-year-old Bimaran golden casket, which has upon it the earliest known face of the Buddha. He would be offered his own kingdom; he would change the world, and the world would destroy him.

This is a wild journey through nineteenth-century India and Afghanistan, with impeccably researched storytelling that shows us a world of espionage and dreamers, ne'er-do-wells and opportunists, extreme violence both personal and military, and boundless hope. At the edge of empire, amid the deserts and the mountains, it is the story of an obsession passed down the centuries.

EAN 9781526603784
ISBN 1526603780
Binding Hardback
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication date May 13, 2021
Pages 352
Language English
Dimensions 234 x 153
Country United Kingdom
Readership General
Authors Richardson, Edmund

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