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Stones Of Empire: The Buildings of the Raj - Softcover

Morris, Jan

 
9780192805966: Stones Of Empire: The Buildings of the Raj
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0192805967 ISBN 13: 9780192805966
Publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 2005

Synopsis

The first book to describe the whole range of British constructions in India, now reissued with an introduction by Simon Winchester

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About the Author

Jan Morris, hailed by Rebecca West as 'perhaps the best descriptive writer of our times', and by Alastair Cooke as the 'Flaubert of the jet age', is the author of numerous best-selling works on places, travel, and history, including Pax Britannica, Venice, and Fifty Years of Europe: An Album.

Simon Winchester is the author of the bestsellers The Meaning of Everything, The Surgeon of Crowthorne, and The Map That Changed the World. After studying geology at Oxford, he became foreign correspondent for the Guardian and Sunday Times, and was based in Belfast, New Delhi, New York, London, and Hong Kong. He has written for the New York Times, Smithsonian, Spectator, and National Geographic, and is a frequent contributor to the BBC. He lives in Massachusetts, New York, and the Western Isles of Scotland.


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Publisher
Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
Publication date
2005
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0192805967
ISBN 13 
9780192805966
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
248