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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1230 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BML:37001105155225
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : Bengal (India)
ISBN : UCBK:B000981387
Author : Kees Rookmaaker
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 891 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004691544
The rhinoceros is an iconic animal. Three species once inhabited South Asia, two of which disappeared over a century ago. This survey aims to reconstruct the historical distribution of these large mammals resulting in new maps showing the extent of their occurrences. Thousands of sources varied in time and nature are used to study the interactions between man and rhinoceros. The text is supported by over 700 illustrations and 38 maps showing the importance of the rhinoceros in the scientific and cultural fabric of Asia and beyond.
Author : Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : Asia
ISBN : UOM:39015020449131
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Author : Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10534236
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BML:37001103132556
Author : Edmund Richardson
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781250278609
Impeccably researched, and written like a thriller, Edmund Richardson's The King's Shadow is the extraordinary untold and wild journey of Charles Masson - think Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid meets Indiana Jones - and his search for the Lost City of Alexandria in the "Wild East" during the age of empires, kings, and spies. 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, deserter, pilgrim, doctor, archaeologist, spy, one of the most respected scholars in Asia, and the greatest of nineteenth-century travelers. On the way into one of history's most extraordinary stories, he 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 his own kingdom; he would change the world, and the world would destroy him. This is a wild journey through nineteenth-century India and Afghanistan, with impeccably researched storytelling that shows us a world of espionage and dreamers, ne'er-do-wells and opportunists, extreme violence both personal and military, and boundless hope. At the edge of empire, amid the deserts and the mountains, it is the story of an obsession passed down the centuries.
Author : Great Britain. Board of Trade. Library,W. M. Bucknall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Commerce
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU55874266
Author : Edmund Richardson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526603791
'A jewel of a book' SUNDAY TIMES 'The pace and deftly woven plot complexity of a John le Carré novel . . . A small masterpiece' GUARDIAN 'Enthralling . . . A remarkable story, full of grandeur and violence . . . [and] a powerful commentary on the horrors inflicted by the East India Company' NEW YORK TIMES 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. This is a wild journey through nineteenth-century India and Afghanistan, with impeccably researched storytelling that shows us a world of espionage and dreamers, ne'er-do-wells and opportunists, extreme violence both personal and military, and boundless hope. At the edge of empire, amid the deserts and the mountains, it is the story of an obsession passed down through the centuries.
Author : Etsuko Taketani
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 1572332271
An overdue examination of widely marginalized writings by women of the American antebellum period, U.S. Women Writers presents a new model for evaluating U.S. relations and interactions with foreign countries in the colonial and postcolonial periods by examining the ways in which women writers were both proponents of colonialization and subversive agents for change. Etsuko Taketani explores attempts to inculcate imperialist values through education in the works of Lydia Maria Child, Sarah Tuttle, Catherine Beecher, and others and the results of viewing the world through these values, as reflected in the writings of Harriet low, Emily Judson, and Sarah hale. Many of the texts Taketani uncovers from relative obscurity illuminate the American attitude toward others whether Native American, African American, African, or Asian. She not only sheds lights on the life of the writers she examines, but she also situates each writer s works alongside those of her contemporaries to give the reader a clear picture of the cultural context. The Author: Etsuko Taketani is associate professor of English in the Institute of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Tsukuba, Japan. Her articles have appeared in American Literary History, Children s Literature, Melville Society Extracts, and other publications. "
Author : Benjamin Vincent
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 956 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z223771606
Author : Royal Institution of Great Britain. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 990 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044080253917
Author : Royal Institution of Great Britain. Library,Benjamin Vincent
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN : NYPL:33433089896694
Author : Tapti Roy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429673511
This book reconstructs the history of print and publishing in colonial Bengal by tracing the unexpected journey of Bharat Chandra’s Bidyasundar, the first book published by a Bengali entrepreneur. The introduction of printing technology by the British in Bengal expanded the scope of publication and consumption of books significantly. This book looks at the developments and the parallel publishing initiatives of that time. It examines local enterprises in colonial Bengal engaged in producing and selling books and explores the ways in which they charted out a cultural space in the 19th century. The work sheds fresh light on book production and the culture of print, and narrates the processes behind the printing of books to understand the multi-layered literary practices they sustained. A valuable addition to the history of publishing in India, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of South Asian and Indian history, Bengali literature, media and cultural studies, and print and publishing studies. It will also appeal to those interested in the history of Bengal and the Bengali diaspora.
Author : Lauren F. Pfister
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-25
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781000565829
Though recognized in the latter part of the 19th century as "the greatest Orientalist in Britain," the Geneva-born Anglican priest, Solomon Caesar Malan (1812–1894) was such an extraordinary person that he has defied any scholarly person to write a critical account of his life and works. Consequently, almost no one has written anything critically appreciative and insightful about him since his death. A polymath with extraordinary talent for languages and sketching, among other specialized skills, Malan focused much of his life on assessing biblical translations in ancient Middle Eastern and East Asian languages, while also producing English translations of alternative expressions of Christianity found in north Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. A life-long interest of his was comparing the proverbs of his name-sake, King Solomon, with proverbial wisdom from as many cultures and languages as he could find. That interest culminated in a three-volume work that enshrined his achievements realized through his capacities as a hyperpolyglot within the context of a search for shared wisdom across many cultures. In this volume, produced by a team of collaborators from a wide range of scholarly interests and varying expertise, we have presented a critically assessed account of the life and key works produced by Solomon Caesar Malan. In fact, it is the first work of its kind on Malan written since his death, now having occurred more than 125 years ago. Readers will journey through an itinerary that starts in Geneva before it became part of Switzerland, moves to Great Britain, and ultimately into one of the colleges in Oxford. Subsequently, it moves us into an exploration of the journey of his life that involved a huge range of places, people, and languages: starting in Calcutta, touching unusual figures from Hungary, India, and China. Those seminal experiences led Malan into studies of languages related to even more distant cultural worlds in Central, Southeastern, and East Asia. The historians among us have delved into Malan’s life in Calcutta, Geneva, and Dorsetshire, while others have explored the nature of his hyperpolyglossia, and tested the quality of his understanding of ancient literature in classical languages that include Chinese, Manchurian, Sanskrit and Tibetan. Notably, Malan’s personal library was so unique, that when he donated it to his alma mater at Oxford University, it became one of the major bibliographic precedents for what is now the Oriental Division in the Bodleian Libraries. Yet, when one follows the twists and turns of his life’s journey, and the surprises that occur from documenting the history and content of the Malan Library as well as critically analysing aspects of his opus magnum, Original Notes on the Book of Proverbs (1889–1893), we believe both general readers and scholarly specialists will be entranced.