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Teltscher, K: Palace of Palms


en Hardback – 9 iul 2020
THE HIGH ROAD TO CHINA
Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize
'An impeccably well-researched book, and it is hard to imagine this fascinating story being told with greater sensitivity or skill'
Noel Malcolm, Sunday Telegraph
'A vivid look at a lost world'
Jonathan Mirsky, Spectator Books of the Year
'Teltscher is a remarkable new historian . . . wholly original'
William Dalrymple
'Fascinating . . . an extraordinary narrative dominated by marvellous characters and told with a rare mixture of scholarly learning and enthusiast's fizz'
Jan Morris
INDIA INSCRIBED
'What is striking about India Inscribed is Teltscher's close attention to nuance and detail and the care with which she describes paradoxes, complexities and shifts in European accounts of India . . . Historians ought to welcome able works of literary scholarship like this'
C. A. Bayly, TLS
HOBSON-JOBSON
'Teltscher's introduction to this new abridged edition is a model of scholarship and readability'
Neel Mukherjee, The Times
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781529004854
ISBN-10: 1529004853
Pagini: 400
Ilustrații: 16pp colour plates & b/w line drawings
Dimensiuni: 158 x 241 x 43 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Editura: Pan Macmillan

Notă biografică

Kate Teltscher is an Emeritus Fellow of the School of Humanities at the University of Roehampton, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and Honorary Research Associate at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. As a cultural historian, her research has focused on colonial contact between Britain and Asia and she is the author of two acclaimed books, India Inscribed: European and British Writing on India, 1600-1800 and The High Road to China: George Bogle, the Panchen Lama and the First British Expedition to Tibet, which was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography. She lives in south-west London with her family.

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The Palm House at Kew has been one of Britain's most popular attractions since it opened in 1848 - this is the story of its creation and the men whose vision it was