The Mulberry Empire A Novel
by Philip Hensher
- Used
- as new
- Paperback
- Condition
- As New
- ISBN 10
- 1400030897
- ISBN 13
- 9781400030897
- Seller
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Gilbertsville, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
With Tolstoyan sweep and Dickensian vitality, this epically involving historical novel relates England's tragic adventure in Afghanistan, which began with the triumphant arrival of the Army of the Indus in 1839 and ended three years later in rout and massacre.
At the center of The Mulberry Empireis Alexander Burnes, a Scots explorer who travels to the unfathomably remote kingdom of Afghanistan and first befriends and then reluctantly betrays its wise and impeccably courteous Amir. But he is only one character in a cast that includes ladies and generals, princes and deserters, all brilliantly and sympathetically realized. At once stirring and harrowing, exotic and cautionary, and as vividly colored as a Persian miniature, the result is a tour de force of re-creation and invention.
At the center of The Mulberry Empireis Alexander Burnes, a Scots explorer who travels to the unfathomably remote kingdom of Afghanistan and first befriends and then reluctantly betrays its wise and impeccably courteous Amir. But he is only one character in a cast that includes ladies and generals, princes and deserters, all brilliantly and sympathetically realized. At once stirring and harrowing, exotic and cautionary, and as vividly colored as a Persian miniature, the result is a tour de force of re-creation and invention.
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- Bookseller
- Janson Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- M042100080
- Title
- The Mulberry Empire A Novel
- Author
- Philip Hensher
- Format/Binding
- Like new
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1400030897
- ISBN 13
- 9781400030897
- Publisher
- Anchor
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- October 14, 2003
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Janson Books
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About Janson Books
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