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Moghul
In 1524 Sir Thomas Blunt and his young cousin reach Goa in search of the fabled kingdom of Prester John. Instead, they discover an exotic and capricious land whose wealth far exceeds their wildest dreams.
But in Delhi the Blunts incur the displeasure of the Muslim shah, and are forced into an alliance with his sworn enemy, Babur "The Lion," a robber chieftain out of Central Asia. Descendant of Genghis Khan, Babur is a legendary warrior, and leads his people through the Khyber Pass to conquer the great cities of Delhi and Agra. Thus begins one of the most glittering dynasties in history - the Moghuls.
For it was the Great Moghuls who built the Taj Mahal and the Red Fort, and whose monumental feats are recorded in architecture across the subcontinent. And the fortunes of the Blunt family - soldiers and counsellors, generals and ambassadors - are mirrored in the lives and lusts, ambitions and avarices, triumphs and defeats of that brilliant and volatile race
This is the story of the lives and lusts, ambitions and avarices, triumphs and defeats of the Moghuls, and of the English family who witnessed and participated in it all.
But in Delhi the Blunts incur the displeasure of the Muslim shah, and are forced into an alliance with his sworn enemy, Babur "The Lion," a robber chieftain out of Central Asia. Descendant of Genghis Khan, Babur is a legendary warrior, and leads his people through the Khyber Pass to conquer the great cities of Delhi and Agra. Thus begins one of the most glittering dynasties in history - the Moghuls.
For it was the Great Moghuls who built the Taj Mahal and the Red Fort, and whose monumental feats are recorded in architecture across the subcontinent. And the fortunes of the Blunt family - soldiers and counsellors, generals and ambassadors - are mirrored in the lives and lusts, ambitions and avarices, triumphs and defeats of that brilliant and volatile race
This is the story of the lives and lusts, ambitions and avarices, triumphs and defeats of the Moghuls, and of the English family who witnessed and participated in it all.
553 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published June 13, 1991
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About the author
Alan Savage
51 books15 followersChristopher Robin Nicole was born on 7 December 1930 in Georgetown, British Guiana (now Guyana), where he was raised. He is the son of Jean Dorothy (Logan) and Jack Nicole, a police officer, both Scottish. He studied at Queen's College in Guyana and at Harrison College in Barbados. He was a fellow at the Canadian Bankers Association and a clerk for the Royal Bank of Canada in Georgetown and Nassau from 1947 to 1956. In 1957, he moved to Guernsey, Channel Islands, United Kingdom, where he currently lives, but he also has a domicile in Spain.
On 31 March 1951, he married his first wife, Jean Regina Amelia Barnett, with whom he had two sons, Bruce and Jack, and two daughters, Julie and Ursula, they divorced. On 8 May 1982 he married for the second time with fellow writer Diana Bachmann.
As a romantic and passionate of history, Nicole has been published since 1957, when he published a book about West Indian Cricket. He published his first novel in 1959 with his first stories set in his native Caribbean. Later he wrote many historical novels set mostly in tumultuous periods like World War I, World War II and the Cold War, and depict places in Europe, Asia and Africa. He also wrote classic romance novels. He specialized in Series and Sagas, and continues to write into the 21st century with no intention of retiring.
He signs his books as Christopher Nicole and uses several pseudonyms, some of them female. Pseudonyms used include: Peter Grange, Andrew York, Robin Cade, Mark Logan, Christina Nicholson, Alison York, Leslie Arlen, Robin Nicholson, C. R. Nicholson, Daniel Adams, Simon McKay, Caroline Gray and Alan Savage. He wrote disaster thrillers in collaboration with his wife, Diana Bachmann, under the penname Max Marlow. Under his different pseudonyms he has worked with many publishing houses: Jarrolds, Hutchinson, Simon & Schuster, Coward-McCann & Geoghegan, Jove, Michael Joseph, Mills & Boon, and Severn House.
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On 31 March 1951, he married his first wife, Jean Regina Amelia Barnett, with whom he had two sons, Bruce and Jack, and two daughters, Julie and Ursula, they divorced. On 8 May 1982 he married for the second time with fellow writer Diana Bachmann.
As a romantic and passionate of history, Nicole has been published since 1957, when he published a book about West Indian Cricket. He published his first novel in 1959 with his first stories set in his native Caribbean. Later he wrote many historical novels set mostly in tumultuous periods like World War I, World War II and the Cold War, and depict places in Europe, Asia and Africa. He also wrote classic romance novels. He specialized in Series and Sagas, and continues to write into the 21st century with no intention of retiring.
He signs his books as Christopher Nicole and uses several pseudonyms, some of them female. Pseudonyms used include: Peter Grange, Andrew York, Robin Cade, Mark Logan, Christina Nicholson, Alison York, Leslie Arlen, Robin Nicholson, C. R. Nicholson, Daniel Adams, Simon McKay, Caroline Gray and Alan Savage. He wrote disaster thrillers in collaboration with his wife, Diana Bachmann, under the penname Max Marlow. Under his different pseudonyms he has worked with many publishing houses: Jarrolds, Hutchinson, Simon & Schuster, Coward-McCann & Geoghegan, Jove, Michael Joseph, Mills & Boon, and Severn House.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christop... and
http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL1009...
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July 11, 2016
Orientalist drivel. To think that the world still wallows in stories of the 'Other' like this is beyond me. Fiction writing holds more power than it is given credit; if people weren't fed such a steady dose of racism and self-supremacy maybe we wouldn't have people like Trump today. Russia, China, *insert current enemy here* brainwash and use propoganda? Don't make me laugh, we here in the west are such masters at this that none of us can even recognise it for what it is.
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