Author: Mountstuart ElphinstonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Afghanistan
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul, and Its Dependencies in Persia, Tartary, and India
Author: Mountstuart ElphinstonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Afghanistan
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul, and Its Dependencies in Persia, Tartary, and India
Author: Mountstuart ElphinstonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Afghanistan
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul, and Its Dependencies in Persia, Tartary, and India
Author: Mountstuart ElphinstonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Afghanistan
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
The History of India
Author: Mountstuart ElphinstonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul and Its Dependencies
Author: ElphinstoneAn account of the kingdom of Caubul and its dependencies in Persia, Tartary and India
Author: Mountstuart Elphinstone (hon.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
The Man Who Would Be King
Author: Ben MacintyrePublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466803797
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
The untold story of the nineteenth-century American Quaker who tried to build a kingdom in Afghanistan: “A thrilling real-life yarn.” —Booklist In the year 1838, a young adventurer, surrounded by his native troops and mounted on an elephant, raised the American flag on the summit of the Hindu Kush in the mountainous wilds of Afghanistan. He declared himself Prince of Ghor, Lord of the Hazarahs, spiritual and military heir to Alexander the Great. The true story of Josiah Harlan, a Pennsylvania Quaker and the first American ever to enter Afghanistan, has never been told before, yet the life and writings of this extraordinary man echo down the centuries. This “riveting, scrupulously researched” book reveals the full history behind the renowned Rudyard Kipling short story and John Huston’s film classic (The New York Times Book Review). “One of the most remarkable discoveries in the history of biography.” —The New York Review of Books “Macintyre recounts Harlan’s travels with dispatch, and draws on unpublished journals to let his subject’s voice seep through.” —The New Yorker “Here is a writer who seems as taken as I am with crackpottery, delusion, grandiosity, chicanery, and impersonation, but who manages to write about it all with amused restraint, without, that is, the air of the ogler.” —The Boston Globe “Macintyre gives readers both Harlan’s story and a thought-provoking perspective on the history of superpower intervention in Afghanistan . . . Harlan’s story alone is fascinating, but its resonance with modern-day struggles—Harlan urging the British to try ‘fiscal diplomacy’ (i.e., gold) instead of ‘invading and subjugating an unoffending people’—makes it compelling.” —Publishers Weekly
An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul, and Its Dependencies in Persia, Tartary, and India
Author: Mountstuart ElphinstonePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385145139
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1839.
An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul, and Its Dependencies in Persia, Tartary, and India; Comprising a View of the Affghan Nation, and a History of the Douranee Monarchy
Author: Mountstuart ElphinstonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul, and Its Dependencies in Persia, Tartary, and India
Author: Mountstuart ElphinstonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description