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The Age of Kali: Travels and Encounters in India The Age of Kali: Travels and Encounters in India

Автор: William Dalrymple

Год издания: 0000

William Dalrymple, who wrote so magically about India in ‘City of Djinns’, returns to the country in a series of remarkable essays.Featured in its pages are 15-year-old guerrilla girls and dowager Maharanis; flashy Bombay drinks parties and violent village blood feuds; a group of vegetarian terrorists intent on destroying India’s first Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet; and a palace where port and cigars are still carried to guests on a miniature silver steam train.Dalrymple meets such figures as Imran Khan and Benazir Bhutto; he witnesses the macabre nightly offering to the bloodthirsty goddess Parashakti – She Who Is Seated on a Throne of Five Corpses; he experiences caste massacres in the badlands of Bihar and dines with a drug baron on the North-West Frontier; he discovers such oddities as the terrorist apes of Jaipur and the shrine where Lord Krishna is said to make love every night to his 16,108 wives and 64,732 milkmaids.‘The Age of Kali’ is the fourth fascinating volume from the author of ‘In Xanadu’, ‘City of Djinns’ and ‘From the Holy Mountain’.
Travels in Greece Travels in Greece

Автор: Richard Chandler

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Полный вариант заголовка: «Travels in Greece : an account of a tour made at the expense of the Soc. of dilettanti / by Richard Chandler».

Travels in Western Africa Travels in Western Africa

Автор: William Gray

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Полный вариант заголовка: «Travels in Western Africa : in the years 1818, 19, 20, and 21, from the river Gambia, through Woolli, Bondoo, Galam, Kasson, Kaarta, and Foolidoo, to the river Niger : with a map, drawings, and costumes, illustrative of those countries / by major William Gray, and the late staff surgeon Dochard».

An account of travels into the interior of Southern Africa, in the years 1797 and 1798 An account of travels into the interior of Southern Africa, in the years 1797 and 1798

Автор: John Barrow

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Полный вариант заголовка: «An account of travels into the interior of Southern Africa, in the years 1797 and 1798 : including cursory observations on the geology and geography of the southern part of that continent, the natural history of such objects as occurred in the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms, and sketches of the physical and moral characters of the various tribes of inhabitants surrounding the settlement of the Cape of Good Hope. To which is annexed, a description of the present state, population, and produce of that extensive colony / by John Barrow».

Travels and adventures in the Persian provinces on the southern banks of the Caspian Sea Travels and adventures in the Persian provinces on the southern banks of the Caspian Sea

Автор: James Baillie Fraser

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Полный вариант заголовка: «Travels and adventures in the Persian provinces on the southern banks of the Caspian sea : with an appendix, containing short notices of the geology and commerce of Persia / by James B. Fraser».

Travels in Greece and Albania. Vol. 1 Travels in Greece and Albania. Vol. 1

Автор: Thomas Smart Hughes

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Примечание: Путешествия в Грецию и Албанию. Полный вариант заголовка: «Travels in Greece and Albania : Vol. 1 : in 2 volumes : with considerable additions / by the Rev. T.S. Hughes».