[PDF] The North American Miscellany 1851 Vol 2 eBook

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Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 11,55 MB
Release : 2018-03-06
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ISBN : 9780364044803

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Excerpt from The North American Miscellany, 1851, Vol. 2: A Weekly Magazine of Choice Selections From the Current Literature of This Country and Europe This, it must be allowed, was a singular beginning of counubial felicity; but there is no doubt that Johnson, though he thus showed a manly firmness, proved a most aflectionate and indulgent husband to the last moment of Mrs. Johnson's life; and in his Prayers and Meditations' we find very remarkable evidence that his regard and fondness for her never ceased, even after her death. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 11,43 MB
Release : 2017-11-13
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ISBN : 9781528062343

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Excerpt from The North American Miscellany and Dollar Magazine, 1852, Vol. 4 Angel Eyes, Antiquities of London, anti-stay-at-home Society, American at Florence (ah), American Ideas Practical American Ships. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : William Dalrymple
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 12,96 MB
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 163557076X

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From the internationally acclaimed and bestselling historians William Dalrymple and Anita Anand, the first comprehensive and authoritative history of the Koh-i-Noor diamond, arguably the most celebrated jewel in the world. On March 29, 1849, the ten-year-old leader of the Sikh kingdom of the Punjab was ushered into the magnificent Mirrored Hall at the center of the British fort in Lahore, India. There, in a formal Act of Submission, the frightened but dignified child handed over to the British East India Company swathes of the richest land in India and the single most valuable object in the subcontinent: the celebrated Koh-i-Noor diamond, otherwise known as the Mountain of Light. To celebrate the acquisition, the British East India Company commissioned a history of the diamond woven together from the gossip of the Delhi Bazaars. From that moment forward, the Koh-i-Noor became the most famous and mythological diamond in history, with thousands of people coming to see it at the 1851 Great Exhibition and still more thousands repeating the largely fictitious account of its passage through history. Using original eyewitness accounts and chronicles never before translated into English, Dalrymple and Anand trace the true history of the diamond and disperse the myths and fantastic tales that have long surrounded this awe-inspiring jewel. The resulting history of south and central Asia tells a true tale of greed, conquest, murder, torture, colonialism, and appropriation that shaped a continent and the Koh-i-Noor itself.

Author : William Dalrymple
Publisher : Juggernaut Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 29,49 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Design
ISBN : 9386228084

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This riveting tale of the Kohinoor, the worldÕs most coveted gem, unearths fascinating new information as it moves from the Mughal court to Persia to Afghanistan; from Maharaja Ranjit Singh's durbar in Punjab to the Queen of England's Crown. A thrilling tale, full of violence, drama and intrigue.