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100 1 Richardson, Edmund,|d1982-|eauthor.
240 10 Alexandria
245 14 The king's shadow :|bobsession, betrayal, and the deadly
quest for the Lost City of Alexandria /|cEdmund
Richardson.
246 30 Obsession, betrayal, and the deadly quest for the Lost
City of Alexandria
250 First U.S. edition.
264 1 New York :|bSt. Martin's Press,|c2022.
264 4 |c©2021
300 328 pages, 16 unnumbered pages :|billustrations, map ;|c25
cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
500 "Originally published in Great Britain under the title
Alexandria by Bloomsbury Publishing."
504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-318) and
index.
505 0 The Runaway -- The Illusionists -- The Storyteller -- The
Wild East -- The City Beneath the Mountains -- The Golden
Casket -- Pothos -- Our Man in Kabul -- Stranger than
Fiction -- The Age of Everything -- The Second Alexander -
- Last Resort -- No Return -- Worlds to Conquer -- The
Chamber of Blood -- The Prisoner -- The Spy -- Entrails --
Frontiers -- The Man Who Would be King -- The Lamp-
Lighter.
520 "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."--|cProvided by publisher.
600 10 Masson, Charles,|d1800-1853.
600 10 Masson, Charles,|d1800-1853|xTravel|zAfghanistan.
600 17 Masson, Charles,|d1800-1853.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00186430
610 20 East India Company|xHistory|y19th century.
610 27 East India Company.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00537796
648 7 1800-1899|2fast
650 0 Extinct cities|zAfghanistan|zBagrām.
650 0 Archaeologists|zGreat Britain|vBiography.
650 7 HISTORY / Asia / General.|2bisacsh
650 7 Antiquities.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00810745
650 7 Archaeologists.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00812929
650 7 Discoveries in geography|xBritish.|2fast
|0(OCoLC)fst01352751
650 7 Extinct cities.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00918959
650 7 Travel.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01155558
651 0 Afghanistan|xDiscovery and exploration|xBritish.
651 0 Afghanistan|xAntiquities.
651 0 Afghanistan|xHistory|y19th century.
651 0 India|xHistory|y19th century.
651 7 Afghanistan.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01205406
651 7 Great Britain.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204623
651 7 India.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01210276
655 7 Biographies.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01919896
655 7 Biographies.|2lcgft
655 7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628
655 7 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers^
HISTORY / Asia / Central Asia^SOCIAL SCIENCE /
Archaeology.|2lcgft
775 08 |iAlso issued as:|aRichardson, Edmund, 1982-|tAlexandria
|bLondon, UK ; New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021
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