From The Holy Mountain Av William Dalrymple

In the summer of 1986 two Cambridge history undergraduates set out on Marco Polo's famous journey across Central Asia to the city of Xanadu in Mongolia. This account traces their experiences in the war-torn Middle East and along 1500 miles of the...

A Buddhist monk takes up arms to resist the Chinese invasion of Tibet - then spends the rest of his life trying to atone for the violence by hand printing the best prayer flags in India. A Jain nun tests her powers of detachment as she watches her best...

Boka er en oppsummering av ti års reising på kryss og tvers av det indiske subkontinentet. Overalt møtes Darymple av et historisk landskap som overflømmes av forandringer, der gamle sannheter blir kastet på båten uten at noen ny orden har klart...

In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish a new administration in his richest provinces. Run by English merchants who collected taxes using a ruthless private army, this new regime saw the East...