The Gardens Of The Viceroys
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The Gardens Of The Viceroys
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Author : Cristina Castel-Branco
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
The Gardens Of The Viceroys written by Cristina Castel-Branco and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Gardens categories.
The Viceroys Of India
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Author : Mark Bence-Jones
language : en
Publisher: St Martins Press
Release Date : 1982-01-01
The Viceroys Of India written by Mark Bence-Jones and has been published by St Martins Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982-01-01 with History categories.
Recounts England's rule of India from the Mutiny in 1858, when England took over for the East India Company, until 1947, when Lord Mountbatten oversaw the transfer of power
The Viceroy S Artist
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Author : Anindyo Roy
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2023-12-14
The Viceroy S Artist written by Anindyo Roy and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-14 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Somewhere in the foothills of the Himalayas, a sixty-two-year-old English painter falls off his sketching stool. Overweight, asthmatic and prone to attacks of epilepsy, Edward Lear is nevertheless on a mission – to paint the mighty Kanchenjunga for his patron, the Viceroy of India. Lear is an oddity, an outsider, simultaneously fascinated and repelled by the world the British have built in India. Even as he battles the fatigue of travelling on pony carts, jampans and trains, Lear reflects on those who run the vast machinery of the Empire – administrators and missionaries, kitmutgars and kamsamahs. Duelling pompous British officers with his wry humour, Lear turns his ear to the polyphony of local languages to compose nonsense poetry with a uniquely Indian flavour. Woven into this vivid account are flashes from Lear's own life – deep-seated fears stemming from an unhappy childhood and the memory of unfulfilled adult relationships. Inspired by the journals of this celebrated artist and poet, Anindyo Roy brings to life Lear's little-known Indian sojourns. In lyrical prose, and occasional verse, The Viceroy's Artist paints a picture of an exceptional man who inspires by his unhindered imagination, curiosity and compassion for the world.
The Viceroy S Daughters
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Author : Anne de Courcy
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-12-20
The Viceroy S Daughters written by Anne de Courcy and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-20 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The lives of the three daughters of Lord Curzon: glamorous, rich, independent and wilful. Irene (born 1896), Cynthia (b.1898) and Alexandria (b.1904) were the three daughters of Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India 1898-1905 and probably the grandest and most self-confident imperial servant Britain ever possessed. After the death of his fabulously rich American wife in 1906, Curzon's determination to control every aspect of his daughters' lives, including the money that was rightfully theirs, led them one by one into revolt against their father. The three sisters were at the very heart of the fast and glittering world of the Twenties and Thirties. Irene, intensely musical and a passionate foxhunter, had love affairs in the glamorous Melton Mowbray hunting set. Cynthia ('Cimmie') married Oswald Mosley, joining him first in the Labour Party, where she became a popular MP herself, before following him into fascism. Alexandra ('Baba'), the youngest and most beautiful, married the Prince of Wales's best friend Fruity Metcalfe. On Cimmie's early death in 1933 Baba flung herself into a long and passionate affair with Mosley and a liaison with Mussolini's ambassador to London, Count Dino Grandi, while enjoying the romantic devotion of the Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax. The sisters see British fascism from behind the scenes, and the arrival of Wallis Simpson and the early married life of the Windsors. The war finds them based at 'the Dorch' (the Dorchester Hotel) doing good works. At the end of their extraordinary lives, Irene and Baba have become, rather improbably, pillars of the establishment, Irene being made one of the very first Life Peers in 1958 for her work with youth clubs.
The Chautauquan
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1890
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The Chautauquan
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Author : Theodore L. Flood
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1890
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The Annual Register
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Author : Edmund Burke
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1870
The Annual Register written by Edmund Burke and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1870 with Books categories.
Continuation of the reference work that originated with Robert Dodsley, written and published each year, which records and analyzes the year’s major events, developments and trends in Great Britain and throughout the world. From the 1920s volumes of The Annual Register took the essential shape in which they have continued ever since, opening with the history of Britain, then a section on foreign history covering each country or region in turn. Following these are the chronicle of events, brief retrospectives on the year’s cultural and economic developments, a short selection of documents, and obituaries of eminent persons who died in the year.
The Viceroy Of Ouidah
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Author : Bruce Chatwin
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 1988-06-07
The Viceroy Of Ouidah written by Bruce Chatwin and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-06-07 with Fiction categories.
Bruce Chatwin’s debut novel: “Conrad’s Heart of Darkness seen through a microscope” (The Atlantic) In this vivid, powerful novel, Chatwin tells of Francisco Manoel de Silva, a poor Brazilian adventurer who sails to Dahomey in West Africa to trade for slaves and amass his fortune. His plans exceed his dreams, and soon he is the Viceroy of Ouidah, master of all slave trading in Dahomey. But the ghastly business of slave trading and the open savagery of life in Dahomey slowly consume Manoel's wealth and sanity.
A Popular Guide To The Gardens Of The Zoological Society Of London
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Author : David William Mitchell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1852
A Popular Guide To The Gardens Of The Zoological Society Of London written by David William Mitchell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1852 with Zoos categories.
Flora S Empire
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Author : Eugenia W. Herbert
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2012-01-31
Flora S Empire written by Eugenia W. Herbert and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-31 with Architecture categories.
Like their penchant for clubs, cricket, and hunting, the planting of English gardens by the British in India reflected an understandable need on the part of expatriates to replicate home as much as possible in an alien environment. In Flora's Empire, Eugenia W. Herbert argues that more than simple nostalgia or homesickness lay at the root of this "garden imperialism," however. Drawing on a wealth of period illustrations and personal accounts, many of them little known, she traces the significance of gardens in the long history of British relations with the subcontinent. To British eyes, she demonstrates, India was an untamed land that needed the visible stamp of civilization that gardens in their many guises could convey. Colonial gardens changed over time, from the "garden houses" of eighteenth-century nabobs modeled on English country estates to the herbaceous borders, gravel walks, and well-trimmed lawns of Victorian civil servants. As the British extended their rule, they found that hill stations like Simla offered an ideal retreat from the unbearable heat of the plains and a place to coax English flowers into bloom. Furthermore, India was part of the global network of botanical exploration and collecting that gathered up the world's plants for transport to great imperial centers such as Kew. And it is through colonial gardens that one may track the evolution of imperial ideas of governance. Every Government House and Residency was carefully landscaped to reflect current ideals of an ordered society. At Independence in 1947 the British left behind a lasting legacy in their gardens, one still reflected in the design of parks and information technology campuses and in the horticultural practices of home gardeners who continue to send away to England for seeds.