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1 review
William Dalrymple

Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2007

"The Land is Lampless"
A great strength of 'The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857' by William Dalrymple (White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India) is its use not only of more familiar British sources, but also many Indian (Urdu and Persian) sources on one of pivotal events in the history of both India and the British Empire, the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857 or the First War of Indian ...

At the Court of the Fish-Eyed Goddess: Travels In the Indian Subcontinent

1 review
William Dalrymple

HarperCollins India, 1998

Found the Fish-Eyed Goddess!
Difficult to find at a reasonable price, so this was a great find. Thanks for the quick shipping too.

The Age of Kali

24 reviews
William Dalrymple

Flamingo, 1999

Fearless and enlightening plunge into the conflict centers in India
In this relevant and political travelogue, it's hard to tell whether Dalrymple is playing devil's advocate in order to provoke the passions of his interview subjects, or if he can just be, at times, pigheadedly judgemental and narrow-minded. For example, he acts as if he doesn't recognize the symbolism of the first Kentucky Fried Chicken in Bangalore ("Three thousand tandoori restaurants in ...

In Xanadu - Following Marco Polo's Route From Jerusalem to Xanadu

1 review
William Dalrymple

Vintage Departures, 1990

Best kept secret...
This book is simply fascinating! I don't know why more people haven't read it, but if you are history buff like me, or like a good adventure story (or both) than you will really love this book. So many great anecdotes (from meeting a group in Jerusalem that adheres to ancient traditions of Christianity, to losing his teeth en route do to malnutrition and lack of clean water, to the amazing ...

Begums, Thugs, and White Mughals: The Journals of Fanny Parkes

1 review
Fanny Parkes Parlby, William Dalrymple

Sickle Moon Books, 2003

A rare and delightful travelogue......
A rare and delightful travelogue...... Fanny Parkes should be ever grateful to William Dalrymple for rediscovering and bringing out her 'unique and wonderful' travelogue on India - the long-titled " Wanderings of a Pilgrim in search of the Pictureseque, During four and twenty years in the East; with revelations of Life in the Zenana" originally published in 1850 by Pelham Richardson.....yet ...

The Last Mughal

42 reviews

Knopf, 2007

Masterful, Commanding, Brilliant History
Having just returned from Delhi and a "tour" of the Red Fort, I found myself on a rainy week-long vacation in New Hampshire. I had purchased this book months ago and finally decided to read it. I wish I had done so before my long journey to India, as "The Last Mughal" provides an amazingly exhaustive and massively detailed wealth of information on 19th century Delhi, the Fort, and the incredible ...

The City of Djinns

44 reviews
William Dalrymple

HarperCollins Audio, 1996

A great book for insight on multi-layered cultures of Delhi
I was born and brought up in Delhi, and lived there for 21 years of my life, after which I emigrated to the United States. This book made me feel that how oblivious many of us 'locals' are, of the many riches and insights that my home city has to offer. William Dalrymple peels the multilayered culture of the historical city of Delhi - seven times the capital of empires - ruined and rebuilt ...

White Mughals

23 reviews
William Dalrymple

HarperPerennial, 2003

Once Upon a Time in Hyderabad ...
This book is a complex many-faceted marvel! It is carefully researched history transformed into the story of an ultimately tragic romance. With its portrayal of Europeans astride two cultures, it offers a wonderful, and probably unintentional, counterpoint to the Clash of Civilizations. It is a swarm of all-seeing flies on the walls and writing desks of Hyderabad's elite, both British and Indian, ...

From the Holy Mountain

8 reviews
William Dalrymple

Flamingo, 1998

A TRAVEL BOOK THAT TAKES YOU OUT OF YOUR CHAIR
I could not put this book down once i had started it. I was absolutely fascinated by Dalrymple's descriptions of modern day early Christian sites. The alternative veiwpoint he offers about the archeological situation of these sites in the Middle East and the way of living of the local Christian population absorbed me from the very beginning. I found the story so interesting that I visited Lebanon ...

From the Holy Mountain: A Journey among the Christians of the Middle East

66 reviews
William Dalrymple

Holt Paperbacks, 1999

Inspirational
As a seminary student, I had been exposed to many of the groups Dalrymple visited during his journey. Though we treated them largely as doctrinal heretics and schismatics, they were lifeless groups and sects in the pages of our medieval church history text books. "From the Holy Mountain" brought those people to life in ways that I had not experienced before. In addition to the narratives ...

Age of Kali Travels and Encounters In Indi
William Dalrymple

Harpercollins Uk, 1998

William Dalrymple, who wrote about India in "City of Djinns", returns to the country in a series of essays. Featured in the pages this work are 15-year-old guerrilla girls and dowager Maharanis; flashy Bombay drinks parties and violent village blood feuds; a group of vegetarian terrorists intent on destroying India's first Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet; and a palace where port and cigars are still carried to guests on a miniature silver steam ...

In Xanadu

6 reviews
William Dalrymple

audible.com

Jerusalem to Xanadu on $1100
William Dalrymple travelled 12,000 miles overland from Jerusalem to Xanadu in order to retrace the journey of Marco Polo, and I think the Venetian probably had the easier trip--- in 1271 Marco Polo didn't have to smuggle himself along the Silk Route by burrowing into the back of a coal truck. The author calls his journey a `quest' rather than a `vacation,' since it involved not only a goal, ...

Sales Management

3 reviews
Douglas J. Dalrymple, William L. Cron, ...

Wiley, 2003

Magnificint Would Do :)
I have read this book myself cause I wanted to know more about Sales and it was a shock to find all what one needs. This book has helped me out a lot and I'm very thankfull.

IN XANADU

18 reviews
William Dalrymple

Vintage, 1990

A delightful and hilarious travel memoir.
I read this book on an airplane journey, and laughed so hard at some entries that I cried. And then I got depressed, because I realized that at the author's age, I would have been incapable of the deft writing and erudition he displayed.

Under the Dragon: A Journey through Burma

3 reviews
Rory MacLean

Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2008

Quest makes frightening and alien culture accessible
This evocative book has haunted me since I first read it last year. Rory MacLean weaves the story of his search for traditional Burmese culture (in the form of an antique basket)together with the tragic and profoundly moving lives of some contemporary Burmese. His harrowing and potentially deadly experience at the work's climax, takes his story and experience of Burma far beyond traditional ...

Lonely Planet Sacred India

3 reviews

Lonely Planet Publications, 2002

Sacred India
Beautiful evocation of the many religions that make up India. The book focuses mainly on the tenets and customs of the four major religions in India...Hinduism, Islam, Sikhism, and Buddhism...but touches on the other religions as well, if more briefly. The juxtaposition of the photographs, history, explanations of religious practices, and the words and experiences of the faithful brings these ...

Monumental India

2 reviews
Amin Nath

Vendome Press, 2008

IMPRESSIVE
Really a great format book. Full of beautiful India pictures. High quality paper. All pictures are full page size, and some of them are three or four pages size. greatest Indian palaces, cities... are inside. Some pictures are so real than you think can touch the walls, the furniture... you can forget you're seen photos, and think than you are in. If you like great format books, great photos, if ...

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