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Josiah the Great: The True Story of The Man Who Would Be King
Ben Macintyre
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Description for Josiah the Great: The True Story of The Man Who Would Be King
Paperback. The amazing tale of a resourceful and unscrupulous early-19th-century American adventurer who forges his own kingdom in the wilds of Afghanistan. Num Pages: 400 pages, 35 b/w plates (16pp), With index. BIC Classification: 1FCA; 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBJF; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 294.
The amazing tale of a resourceful and unscrupulous early-19th-century American adventurer who forges his own kingdom in the wilds of Afghanistan. In the year 1838, a young adventurer, surrounded by his native troops and mounted on an elephant, raised the American flag on the summit of the Hindu Kush and declared himself Prince of Ghor, the heir to Alexander the Great. Josiah Harlan, the first American to set foot in ... Read more
The amazing tale of a resourceful and unscrupulous early-19th-century American adventurer who forges his own kingdom in the wilds of Afghanistan. In the year 1838, a young adventurer, surrounded by his native troops and mounted on an elephant, raised the American flag on the summit of the Hindu Kush and declared himself Prince of Ghor, the heir to Alexander the Great. Josiah Harlan, the first American to set foot in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780007428199
SKU
V9780007428199
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About Ben Macintyre
Ben Macintyre is the author of Forgotten Fatherland, The Napoleon of Crime, A Foreign Field and the bestsellers Agent Zigzag and Operation Mincemeat. He is the former parliamentary sketch-writer for The Times, and has been the paper's correspondent in New York, Paris and Washington. He lives in London.
Reviews for Josiah the Great: The True Story of The Man Who Would Be King
`A wonderfully compelling story, immediate and engrossing.' Sunday Telegraph `A riveting and valuable contribution to Great Game literature.' Spectator `If you like 19th-century derring-do, wild men in wild places, dancing ... Read more