by William Dalrymple
I have a lot of admiration for this author’s Nine Lives, and The Anarchy is highly informative. But this book is supposedly a love story, which isn't actually all that well-documented and for which the author puts on heavily rose-tinted glasses to ignore the fact that the participants were aged 35 a...
bookshelves: published-2002, history, india, hardback, paper-read, biography, nonfiction, one-penny-wonder, nonfic-nov-2015, gone-native, bedside Read from August 25 to November 14, 2015 Description: Conjuring all the sweep of a great nineteenth-century novel, acclaimed author William Dalrympl...