Durante um milénio e meio, a Índia exportou a sua civilização diversificada e criou à sua volta um vasto império de ideias. A arte indiana, as religiões, a tecnologia, a astronomia, a música, a dança, a literatura, a matemática e a mitologia cruzaram o mundo ao longo de uma Rota do Ouro, que se estendia do Mar Vermelho ao Oceano Pacífico.Em A Rota do Ouro William Dalrymple recorre a uma vida inteira de estudo para realçar a posição, frequentemente esquecida, da Índia enquanto coraçã...

One of the most successful, influential and acclaimed travel books of recent years from the author of ‘Return of a King’, which has been shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize.At the age of twenty-two, William Dalrymple left his college in Cambridge to travel to the ruins of Kublai Khan’s stately pleasure dome in Xanadu. This is an account of a quest which took him and his companions across the width of Asia, along dusty, forgotten roads, through villages and cities full of unexp...

From the author of the Samuel Johnson prize-shortlisted ‘Return of a King’, the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that transcended all the cultural, religious and political boundaries of its time.James Achilles Kirkpatrick was the British Resident at the court of Hyderabad when he met Khair un-Nissa – ‘Most Excellent among Women’ – the great-niece of the Prime Minister of Hyderabad. He fell in love with her and overcame many obstacles to marry her, con...

Per oltre un millennio, a partire all’incirca dal 200 a.C., l’India è stata uno dei grandi motori di civiltà del mondo antico: un centro irradiatore di religioni, arti e saperi che, travalicando i confini geografici del Subcontinente, hanno dato origine a una vera e propria «indosfera» – una vasta area dove le idee indiane sono state accolte, rielaborate e assimilate da società profondamente diverse tra loro. William Dalrymple, tra i massimi storici dell’Asia meridionale, è il primo a dare...

È ormai chiaro che lo strapotere delle grandi multinazionali, capace di condizionare la vita politica, le scelte economiche, i flussi informativi, costituisce un rischio per le odierne democrazie liberali. Ma il fenomeno è tutt’altro che nuovo. Circa quattrocento anni fa un’audace start-up londinese, dal suo piccolo ufficio nel cuore della City, si lanciò, letteralmente, alla conquista del mondo. La Compagnia Britannica delle Indie Orientali, una delle prime Società per Azioni, avviò l’att...

Na Primavera de 1839, o Reino Unido invadiu o Afeganistão pela primeira vez. Aproximadamente 20.000 soldados submeteram o país e repuseram Shah Shuja ul-Mulk no trono. Mas, passados dois anos da ocupação, o povo afegão aderiu à chamada para a jihad e rebelou-se com grande violência. As tropas britânicas recuaram para as montanhas enfrentando ventos gelados e foram derrotados pelas tribos afegãs – foi a maior humilhação militar britânica do século XIX.Recorrendo a uma série de fonte...

LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE'Beautifully written, ridiculously erudite, warm and open-hearted' The Times'Compelling and poignant' Guardian'This is travel writing at its best' ObserverInternationally bestselling William Dalrymple takes us to the heart of an undiscovered India.A Buddhist monk takes up arms to resist the Chinese invasio...

A rich blend of history and spirituality, adventure and politics, laced with the thread of black comedy familiar to readers of William Dalrymple’s previous work.In AD 587, two monks, John Moschos and Sophronius the Sophist, embarked on an extraordinary journey across the Byzantine world, from the shores of the Bosphorus to the sand dunes of Egypt. Their aim: to collect the wisdom of the sages and mystics of the Byzantine East before their fragile world shattered under the eruption ...

THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARFINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019A FINANCIAL TIMES, OBSERVER, DAILY TELEGRAPH, WALL STREET JOURNAL AND TIMES BOOK OF ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2013'As taut and richly embroidered as a great novel . . . a masterpiece' Sunday Telegraph'Dazzling' Sunday Times | 'Magnificent' Guardian | 'Sparkling' Daily TelegraphA towering history of the first Afghan War by bestselling historian William Dalrymple.In the spring of 1839, Britain invaded Afghanistan for the first t...

‘Could you show me a djinn?’ I asked. ‘Certainly,’ replied the Sufi. ‘But you would run away.’From the author of the Samuel Johnson Prize-shortlisted ‘The Return of a King’, this is William Dalrymple’s captivating memoir of a year spent in Delhi, a city watched over and protected by the mischievous invisible djinns. Lodging with the beady-eyed Mrs Puri and encountering an extraordinary array of characters – from elusive eunuchs to the last remnants of the Raj – William Dalrymple co...

Desde el establecimiento de los sultanatos en la Baja Edad Media a la instauración del Raj británico, la India se vio impregnada de poderosas influencias culturales foráneas que transformaron religiosa, cultural y lingüísticamente el país y a sus gentes. Sin embargo, durante el milenio y medio anterior, las religiones, la tecnología, la astronomía, la música, la danza, la literatura, el arte, las matemáticas, la medicina y la filosofía del subcontinente se abrieron camino desde el océano P...