Colleen Gantzer (35 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. 'Mythistory' emerges when a real event becomes enveloped in mystery, revealing a surreal tale that is not quite fact and not quite fiction. Out of the eclectic mix of Mussoorie's society have emerged coruscating tales, each a concoction of truth and imagination. When unexplainable events took place and no one had any credible explanation for them, it was mythistory that filled the gap. These stories have been distilled through the minds of a multitude of people, who have all added their own 'spice' to these tales. With each retelling, the mythistory of Mussoorie has grown, resulting in the strange pearls found in Mussoorie's Mythistory. (jacket).…

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. John Lynsdale was born to be the King of England. Deprived of his birthright by a weak father and a scheming woman, John follows his repetitive dream to India, a land of opportunity riven by little men squabbling for power. In Britain, too, the restless Scots want their own king, the common people are miserable and the hostile kingdoms of Europe are a looming threat across the narrow English Channel. John Lynsdale's world, 300 years ago, was much like ours today. This is the story of his adventures, the intrigues he faced in the multinational East India Company, his many loves and mystical awakening. In Fort St. George, Madras, he encounters the cold, ruthless, Norbert Kline and, together, they are besieged in a monsoon-drenched fortress and emerge victorious. But when he falls in love with the beautiful Armenian woman, Ann Hawkenian, the petty-minded expatriates in the Fort spurn him for choosing a 'country-born' wife. Lured to Calcutta by a suave mercenary agent, John Lynsdale and Ann then set off to find their dream kingdom in the Himalayas. This is John Lynsdale's swashbuckling story, but is his story History? Perhaps. Sometimes fact and fiction converge curiously.…

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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. The East is defined by the great Bay of Bengal and the mighty Brahmaputra that pours into it, creating the Andaman Islands. Or so a geologist assured Hugh and Colleen Gantzer. But they found more than dense forests there. In Ross Island they had an eldritch encounter in the ruins of an abandoned church. In this, the fourth book in their Intriguing India series, the Gantzers describe the other experiences they've had in the Eastern States. In Puri they saw a million people, of all faiths, held in disciplined awe as the enormous chariots of three forest deities rolled by. Cruising on the mighty Brahmaputra they came across a powerful Sino-Burmese dynasty: the Ahoms had ruled Assam for longer than the combined dominance of the Mughals and British, and then they had vanished without a trace. On a visit to the largest riverine island in the world the Gantzers found a fascinating faith in which some monks dance and others make masks as a religious duty. At the sacred shrine of the Mother Goddess Kamakhya they saw evidence of an ancient celestial catastrophe. They unearthed evidence in Nagaland pointing to the overseas origin of these very special people. Assessing the mounting threat to Tawang from across the border, they ask, "Why are the Chinese so eager to capture the Golden Monastery, repository of ancient Tibetan scholarship? Does its esoteric library and museum hold an awesome transcendental secret which can be turned against us?" The Gantzers, once again, bring their gentle curiosity to bear on questions that orthodox science does not want to ask. And they give their own intriguing answers.…

Pbk. Harry Potter?s Hogwarts is a magical place But it?s an unreal one it does not exist Hugh and Colleen Gantzer have discovered magical places in India that are real and accessibleWhat is the origin of the fear that a monster lies beneath the surface of the high blue lake of Pangong Tso Who was the Englishman who carved out his own kingdom in the Himalayas What gourmet dish was created by a ruler to feed his famished subjects What is the epic tale of the white shrine where the weapons of a martial saint are reveredThis is not a travelogue or a guide book or even a retelling of ancient folklore It is however a little bit of all three It is a conversation with two well informed people who have travelled and questioned and analysed They are convinced that every legend every custom has grown out of a hard core of fact a historical event whose impact was so great that it was branded into the racial memory of the community It then became encased in multiple layers of mythIn The Alluring North while describing their experiences in their gently evocative style Hugh and Colleen Gantzer also uncover many fascinating gems of other enduring realities that glitter within our ?intriguing India? 172 pp. 109 photographs (illustrator).…