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A Mountain in Tibet by Charles Allen
24.95 NZD
27.95 (10% off)
Category: Non-Fiction
Throughout the East there runs a legend of a great mountain at the centre of the world, where four rivers have their source. Charles Allen traces this legend to Western Tibet where there stands Kailas, worshipped by Hindus and Buddhists alike as the home of their gods and the navel of the world. Close b ...Show more
Kipling Sahib: India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling by Charles Allen
34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay in 1865 and spent his early years there, before being sent, aged six, to England, a desperately unhappy experience. Charles Allen's great-grandfather brought the sixteen-year-old Kipling out to Lahore to work on The Civil and Military Gazette with the words 'Kipling wi ...Show more
Plain Tales from the British Empire by Charles Allen
47.99 NZD
49.99 (4% off)
Category: Historical Fiction
PLAIN TALES FROM THE BRITISH EMPIRE gathers together Charles Allen's best loved books on the British experience across the Empire: PLAIN TALES FROM THE RAJ, TALES FROM THE SOUTH CHINA SEAS and TALES FROM THE DARK CONTINENT. These vivid stories and recollections give an evocative and unique glimpse into ...Show more
Soldier Sahibs: The Men Who Made the North-West Frontier by Charles Allen
29.99 NZD
Category: Military
This text retells the story of a brotherhood of young men who together laid claim to one of the most notorious frontiers in the world: India's north-west frontier, which in the late 1990s forms the volatile boundary between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Known collectively as Henry Lawrence's Young Men, each ...Show more
The Buddha and the Sahibs by Charles Allen
29.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
The fascinating story of the role played by Britons in uncovering the origins of Buddhism on the Indian subcontinent.
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