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04687aam a2200649 i 4500 001 23AF514CB18111ECB5BF500951ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220401010114 008 211005t20222021nyuab e b 001 0beng 010 $a 2021048595 020 $a 1250278597 020 $a 9781250278593 035 $a (OCoLC)1246140878 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d TOH $d ZGX $d OCLCO $d IEB $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-ii--- $a a-ii--- 082 00 $a 958.1/03 $2 23 100 1 $a Richardson, Edmund, $d 1982- $e author. 240 10 $a Alexandria 245 14 $a The king's shadow : $b obsession, betrayal, and the deadly quest for the Lost City of Alexandria / $c Edmund Richardson. 246 30 $a Obsession, betrayal, and the deadly quest for the Lost City of Alexandria 250 $a First U.S. edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b St. Martin's Press, $c 2022. 300 $a 328 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations, map ; $c 25 cm 500 $a "Originally published in Great Britain under the title Alexandria by Bloomsbury Publishing." 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a The Runaway -- The Illusionists -- The Storyteller -- The Wild East -- The City Beneath the Mountains -- The Golden Casket -- Pothos -- Our Man in Kabul -- Stranger than Fiction -- The Age of Everything -- The Second Alexander -- Last Resort -- No Return -- Worlds to Conquer -- The Chamber of Blood -- The Prisoner -- The Spy -- Entrails -- Frontiers -- The Man Who Would be King -- The Lamp-Lighter. 520 $a "Impeccably researched, and written like a thriller, Edmund Richardson's The King's Shadow is the extraordinary untold and wild journey of Charles Masson -- think Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid meets Indiana Jones -- and his search for the Lost City of Alexandria in the 'Wild East' during the age of empires, kings, and spies. For centuries the city of Alexandria Beneath the Mountains was a meeting point of East and West. Then it vanished. In 1833 it was discovered in Afghanistan by the unlikeliest person imaginable: Charles Masson, deserter, pilgrim, doctor, archaeologist, spy, one of the most respected scholars in Asia, and the greatest of nineteenth-century travelers. On the way into one of history's most extraordinary stories, he would take tea with kings, travel with holy men and become the master of a hundred disguises; he would see things no westerner had glimpsed before and few have glimpsed since. He would spy for the East India Company and be suspected of spying for Russia at the same time, for this was the era of the Great Game, when imperial powers confronted each other in these staggeringly beautiful lands. Masson discovered tens of thousands of pieces of Afghan history, including the 2,000-year-old Bimaran golden casket, which has upon it the earliest known face of the Buddha. He would be offered his own kingdom; he would change the world, and the world would destroy him. This is a wild journey through nineteenth-century India and Afghanistan, with impeccably researched storytelling that shows us a world of espionage and dreamers, ne'er-do-wells and opportunists, extreme violence both personal and military, and boundless hope. At the edge of empire, amid the deserts and the mountains, it is the story of an obsession passed down the centuries"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Masson, Charles, $d 1800-1853. 600 10 $a Masson, Charles, $d 1800-1853 $x Travel $z Afghanistan. 650 0 $a Extinct cities $z BagraÌm. $z BagraÌm. 651 0 $a Afghanistan $x British. $x British. 651 0 $a Afghanistan $x Antiquities. 651 0 $a Afghanistan $x History $y 19th century. 651 0 $a India $x History $y 19th century. 610 20 $a East India Company $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Archaeologists $z Great Britain $v Biography. 941 $a 17 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240710060435.0 952 $l FGPD194 $d 20240515012900.0 952 $l ALPE516 $d 20240417015955.0 952 $l UGPF911 $d 20231207014859.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010033231.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20230708011426.0 952 $l CMPE792 $d 20230629015003.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20230520010045.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20230418011042.0 952 $l YXPB162 $d 20221004021051.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20220802023120.0 952 $l KJPF566 $d 20220726011636.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20220722010325.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20220630014828.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20220510011741.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20220507010344.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20220401010750.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=23AF514CB18111ECB5BF500951ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search