Alexandria: The Quest For Lost City Dr Edmund Richardson Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Αγγλικά Βιβλία History General Issues

\ Not All Lost Cities Are Real But This One Was The Extraordinary Story Of Alexander Great\ S City And A Quest To Unravel Most Captivating Mysteries In Ancient History ‘Superb … Impeccably Researched With Pace Deftly Woven Plot Complexity John Le Carré Novel Utterly Brilliant’ William Dalrymple Guardian‘[An] Exceptional Biography Is Jewel Book’ Sunday Times‘a Brilliant Evocative Written Consummate Scholarship Great Style Wit’ Daily Telegraph For Centuries Alexandria Beneath Mountains Meeting Point East West Then It Vanished 1833 Discovered Afghanistan By Unlikeliest Person Imaginable: Charles Masson An Ordinary Working-Class Boy From London Turned Deserter Pilgrim Doctor Archaeologist Highly Respected Scholar On Way Into History’s Stories Would Take Tea Kings Travel Holy Men Become Master Hundred Disguises He See Things No Westerner Had Glimpsed Before Few Have Since Spy India Company Be Suspected Spying Russia At Same Time Era Game When Imperial Powers Confronted Each Other These Staggeringly Beautiful Lands Tens Thousands Pieces Afghan Including 2 000-Year-Old Bimaran Golden Casket Which Has Upon Earliest Known Face Buddha Offered His Own Kingdom Change World Destroy Him Wild Journey Through Nineteenth-Century Storytelling That Shows Us Espionage Dreamers Ne’er-Do-Wells Opportunists Extreme Violence Both Personal Military Boundless Hope Edge Empire Amid Deserts Obsession Passed Down **Chosen As Book Year Spectator Listener Sydney Morning Herald** Σελίδες: 352 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0802 Διαστάσεις: 12 9X12 9Cm