Autor William Dalrymple
FROM THE AWARD-WINNING, BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND CO-HOST OF THE CHART-TOPPING EMPIRE PODCAST - A REVOLUTIONARY NEW HISTORY OF INDIA‘A master storyteller’ Sunday TimesIndia is the forgotten heart of the ancient worldFor a millennium and a half, India was…
Afghanistan has long been a country overwhelmed by tribal rivalries, colonial wars, and geo-political conflict. The Afghans have called their mountains “the land of rebellion,” a land that has not been successfully occupied since the…
The first comprehensive and authoritative history of the Koh-i Noor, arguably the most celebrated and mythologised jewel in the world. On 29 March 1849, the ten-year-old Maharajah of the Punjab was ushered into the magnificent Mirrored Hall at the centre…
A rich blend of history and spirituality, adventure and politics, laced with the thread of black comedy familiar to readers of William Dalrymple's previous work. In AD 587, two monks, John Moschos and Sophronius the Sophist, embarked on an extraordinary…
One of the most successful, influential and acclaimed travel books of recent years from the author of 'Return of a King', which has been shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize. At the age of twenty-two, William Dalrymple left his college in Cambridge…
Posvätné prostitútky, tanečníci, do ktorých sa prevteľujú bohovia, kŕmiči lebiek i mníška, ktorá sa dobrovoľne vyhladuje na smrť. To nie sú obrázky z ďalekej minulosti, ale zo súčasnej Indie. Vykročíte po rušnej modernej ulici veľkomesta a o pár minút…