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John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
Until late in the nineteenth century, Africa’s heavy burden of malaria created a kind of protective barrier against European imperial conquest. West Africa was known as the “white man’s grave,” since European soldiers succumbed in such high proportions to malaria. This barrier fell when the British learned to extract an antimalarial treatment, quin
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With a love of adventure and penchant for the impossible, dad, husband and captain Matt Knight was recommended to me by a mutual friend as the ideal man to lead my crew.
Ross Edgley • The Art of Resilience: Strategies for an Unbreakable Mind and Body
the lack of a clear and recognised figure of executive authority—also wrecked their attempts at fighting coherently or effectively.
William Dalrymple • The Last Mughal
with the history in potted two hundred-word biographies, brief anecdotes and did-you-know? trivia corners. The
Richard Grant • Ghost Riders: Travels with American Nomads
On the morning of the 21st, “a royal salute at sunrise proclaimed that Delhi was once more a dependency of the British crown.”96 But the captured city—the ancient capital of Hindustan, the great Mughal metropolis—was now a desolate city of the dead, except for parties of drunken British looters. Major William Ireland, a consistent critic of the bru
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