Eyewitness Accounts: I Was a Tiger Hunter
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'And, as [the tigress] turned her head back, gazing towards the bearers, I aimed at her neck ...and...
Ashoka: The Search for India's Lost Emperor
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India's lost emperor Ashoka Maurya has a special place in history. In his quest to govern India by...
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
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'By turns hilarious and heart-rending. Plunges fearlessly into the murky grey areas of race and...
The Secret Garden
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The classic, beloved children's novel about the sour Mary Lennox who is sent from India as an orphan...
Children YA Classic
The Unfortunate Endeavours of Charles Henry Brown: Aeronaut 1827-1870
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This is the biography of a pioneer aeronaut, Charles Henry Brown, whose life-long obsession with...
Gilgit Rebellion: The Major Who Mutinied Over Partition of India
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In 1942 William Brown was posted as a recently commissioned Indian Army Officer to the Gilgit Agency...
The Lady and the Unicorn: A Virago Modern Classic
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In a crumbling Calcutta mansion, with faded frescos and a jasmine-covered garden, the Lemarchant...
Hops and Glory: One Man's Search for the Beer That Built the British Empire
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The original India Pale Ale was pure gold in a glass; a semi-mythical beer specially invented, in...
Wellington
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The archetype of the stern, silent Englishman dedicated to his duty, the Duke of Wellington had all...
Victoria & Abdul: The True Story of the Queen's Closest Confidant
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The tall, handsome Abdul Karim was just twenty-four years old when he arrived in England from Agra...