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Verlag: Naval and Military Press, 2009
ISBN 10: 1847349846ISBN 13: 9781847349842
Anbieter: Naval and Military Press Ltd, Uckfield, Vereinigtes Königreich
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2009 N&M Press reprint (original pub 1929). SB iii+361pp+appendix xlviii+ index xii., 13 illustrations.Published Price £18 This is a record of the adventurers, buccaneers, buffoons and entrepeneurs who cut a swathe through the heart of the Raj, before and during the golden age of British-ruled India. Some are soldiers - like General Jean-Baptiste Ventura - others merchants, doctors like Martin Honigberger and Josiah Halan, antiquarians like Charles Masson, and native Indian rulers like the great Sikh Ranjit Singh. Some seventy names throng the pages of this enthralling - and sometimes frankly eccentric - book. But not all the adventurers represented here are heroes; one, Col. Alexander Gardiner, is exposed by the authors as a complete cad - who posed as a â very perfect gentle knightâ but who, as an exhaustive study of the records showed, was in reality a â Prize liar who passed off other menâ s adventures as his ownâ and was not above â Undertaking unsavoury duties with which other men entirely refused to have anything to doâ . A gamey read, full of the richness of India.