This is not the Alexandria in the Nile Delta, but rather Alexandria ‘Beneath the Mountains’, in Afghanistan, discovered by a wandering scholar and archaeologist called Charles Masson in 1833. A fantastical mix of Great Game espionage, edge-of-empire characters and politics, brilliantly told.
Alexandria: The Quest for the Lost City
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£25.00
Edition:Hardback978152660378413/05/2021From a Bookshelf nearby
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Idi Amin: The Story of Africa’s Icon of Evil
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From the author of the biography of Shchukin comes the story of another extraordinary pre-Revolutionary Russian collector of European art. He spent 1.5 million francs on 486 paintings, which... read more
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Fabric - and our hunger for it - as the mother of invention, the driver behind technology, agriculture, trade, politics, culture... it funded the Italian Renaissance and the Mughal empire. H... read more