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Alexandria: The Quest for the Lost CityCondition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781526603821 Format: Trade paperback (UK) Year: 2022 Publisher: Bloomsbury Description: 'Not all lost cities are real, but this one was.' The extraordinary story of Alexander the Great's lost city, and a quest to unravel one of the most captivating mysteries in ancient history. 'Superb impeccably researched, but with the pace and deftly woven plot complexity of a John le Carre novel utterly brilliant' William Dalrymple,
Condition: BRAND NEWISBN: 9781526603821
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Description:
'Not all lost cities are real, but this one was.'
The extraordinary story of Alexander the Great's lost city, and a quest to unravel one of the most captivating mysteries in ancient history.
'Superb - impeccably researched, but with the pace and deftly woven plot complexity of a John le Carre novel ... utterly brilliant' William Dalrymple, Guardian
'(An) exceptional biography ... This is a jewel of a book' Sunday Times
'A brilliant and evocative biography, written with consummate scholarship, great style and wit' Daily Telegraph
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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. He would spy for the East India Company and be suspected of spying for Russia at the same time, for this was the era of the Great Game, when imperial powers confronted each other in these staggeringly beautiful lands. Masson discovered tens of thousands of pieces of Afghan history, including the 2,000-year-old Bimaran golden casket, which has upon it the earliest known face of the Buddha. He would be offered
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