William Dalrymple: 23 books

Book cover of Le Retour d'un roi

Le Retour d'un roi

La bataille d'Afghanistan

by William Dalrymple
Language: French
Release Date: May 15, 2014

Au printemps de 1839, les Anglais envahissent l’Afghanistan pour la première fois. C’est l’amorce du Grand Jeu, cette rivalité coloniale qui opposa en Asie centrale les empires russe et britannique. Précédés de lanciers en manteau écarlate et shako à plumes, près de vingt mille soldats...
Book cover of La Cité des Djinns

La Cité des Djinns

Une année à Delhi

by William Dalrymple
Language: French
Release Date: October 3, 2013

Le livre Thomas Cook Travel Book Award Lors d’un premier séjour en Inde à l’âge de dix-sept ans, William Dalrymple découvre Delhi. Cette grande capitale le fascine. Il prend conscience que cet endroit recèle son cortège de richesses et d’horreurs. Cinq ans plus tard, il y...
Book cover of Dans l'ombre de Byzance

Dans l'ombre de Byzance

Sur les traces des chrétiens d'Orient

by William Dalrymple
Language: French
Release Date: September 12, 2013

Le livre Partant sur les traces du grand moine du VIe siècle Jean Moschos, dont la chronique lui sert de guide dans ses pérégrinations, William Dalrymple entreprend en 1994 un voyage à travers l’Empire byzantin, du Mont Athos aux déserts d’Égypte. Au cours de ce périple mêlant recherche...
Book cover of Le Dernier Moghol
by William Dalrymple
Language: French
Release Date: September 12, 2013

Le livre Le Dernier Moghol est le portrait poignant de Delhi la Fabuleuse, personnifiée par Zafar, et de leur destin tragique à tous deux lors de la terrible destruction de Delhi en 1857. Né en 1775, Zafar a été le dernier empereur moghol, descendant direct de Genghis Khan. Mais de royal, Zafar...
Book cover of From the Holy Mountain: A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium (Text Only)
by William Dalrymple
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012

A rich blend of history and spirituality, adventure and politics, laced with the thread of black comedy familiar to readers of William Dalrymple’s previous work. In AD 587, two monks, John Moschos and Sophronius the Sophist, embarked on an extraordinary journey across the Byzantine world, from the...
Book cover of L'Âge de Kali
by William Dalrymple
Language: French
Release Date: September 12, 2013

Le livre D’après l’ancienne cosmologie hindoue l’Inde serait aujourd’hui dans les affres de l’âge de Kali, une époque de conflits et de ténèbres durant laquelle toutes les règles s’effondrent et où tout devient possible... Pendant dix ans, William Dalrymple a sillonné le sous-continent...
Book cover of White Mughals

White Mughals

Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India

by William Dalrymple
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2004

White Mughals is the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that crossed and transcended all the cultural, religious and political boundaries of its time. James Achilles Kirkpatrick was the British Resident at the court of the Nizam of Hyderabad when in 1798 he glimpsed...
Book cover of Koh-I-Noor

Koh-I-Noor

L'histoire funeste du diamant le plus célèbre du monde

by William Dalrymple
Language: French
Release Date: March 1, 2018

Le 29 mars 1849, un garçon de dix ans est introduit dans la salle des miroirs du fort de Lahore. Malgré ses craintes, il s’avance avec dignité : il est le maharajah du Pendjab. Au cours d’une cérémonie aussi fastueuse qu’humiliante, l’enfant va devoir reconnaître sa soumission à la...
Book cover of The Last Mughal
by William Dalrymple
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007

In this evocative study of the fall of the Mughal Empire and the beginning of the Raj, award-winning historian William Dalrymple uses previously undiscovered sources to investigate a pivotal moment in history. The last Mughal emperor, Zafar, came to the throne when the political power of the...
Book cover of Return of a King

Return of a King

The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42

by William Dalrymple
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013

From William Dalrymple—award-winning historian, journalist and travel writer—a masterly retelling of what was perhaps the West’s greatest imperial disaster in the East, and an important parable of neocolonial ambition, folly and hubris that has striking relevance to our own time. With...
Book cover of Koh-i-Noor

Koh-i-Noor

The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond

by William Dalrymple, Anita Anand
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017

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...
Book cover of The Age of Kali: Travels and Encounters in India (Text Only)
by William Dalrymple
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012

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...
Book cover of From the Holy Mountain

From the Holy Mountain

A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East

by William Dalrymple
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012

In the spring of A.D. 587, John Moschos and his pupil Sophronius the Sophist embarked on a remarkable expedition across the entire Byzantine world, traveling from the shores of Bosphorus to the sand dunes of Egypt. Using Moschos’s writings as his guide and inspiration, the acclaimed travel writer...
Book cover of In Xanadu
by William Dalrymple
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012

William Dalrymple’s award-winning first book: his classic, fiercely intelligent and wonderfully entertaining account of his journey across Marco Polo’s 700-year-old route from Jerusalem to Xanadu, the summer palace of Kubla Khan. At the age of twenty-two, Dalrymple left his college in Cambridge...
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