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The Mulberry Empire, or, The two virtuous journeys of the Amir Dost Mohammed Khan / Philip Hensher.
LIBRA - Special PR6058.E554 M85 2002c
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hensher, Philip.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Burnes, Alexander, Sir, 1805-1841--Fiction.
- Burnes, Alexander.
- Dōst Moḥammad Khān, Amir of Afghanistan, 1793-1863--Fiction.
- Dōst Moḥammad Khān.
- Dōst Moḥammad Khān, Amir of Afghanistan, 1793-1863.
- Burnes, Alexander, Sir, 1805-1841.
- British--Afghanistan--Fiction.
- British.
- Afghan Wars.
- Afghanistan.
- Afghanistan--Fiction.
- Afghan Wars--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Biographical fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- War stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 479 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Uncorrected proof.
- Other Title:
- Mulberry Empire
- Two virtuous journeys of the Amir Dost Mohammed Khan
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.
- Summary:
- Spanning a decade and moving between London and Calcutta, "The Mulberry Empire" explores the doomed 1839 mission of some 50,000 forces of the British Empire as they entered Afghanistan to overthrow a hostile amir.
- OCLC:
- 937392935
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