Alexandria. The Quest for the Lost City (Richardson Edmund); Bloomsbury, 2022

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.

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 through the centuries.

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Параметр	Значение
ISBN	9781526603821
Автор(ы)	Richardson Edmund
Вес	0.3
Возрастное ограничение	16+
Год издания	2022
Жанр	история
Издатель	Bloomsbury
Издательство	Bloomsbury
Кол-во страниц	328
Количество книг	1
Количество страниц	328
Обложка	мягкая обложка
Тип обложки	мягкая