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Josiah the Great: The True Story of The Man Who Would Be King
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Josiah the Great: The True Story of The Man Who Would Be King电子书

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作       者：Ben Macintyre

出  版  社：Harper Perennial

出版时间：2012-02-02

字       数：63.8万

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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 Afghanistan, would become the model for Kipling’s ‘The Man Who Would be King’, but the true story of his life is stranger than fiction. A soldier, spy, doctor, naturalist and writer, Harlan set off into the wilds of Central Asia after a failed love affair in 1820. Following a brief stint as a surgeon in the East India Company’s army, he joined the court of the deposed Afghan monarch Shah Shujah, and then slipped into Kabul disguised as a Muslim priest to foment rebellion. For the next two decades he would play a pivotal role in the bloody politics of the region. Using a trove of newly discovered documents, including Harlan’s long-lost journals, Ben Macintyre has followed Harlan’s footsteps to uncover an astonishing, untold chapter in the history of the Great Game. If you enjoyed William Dalrymple’s ‘Return of a King’, ‘Josiah the Great’ should be on your reading list.
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Title Page

Copyright

Praise

Dedication

Epigraph

Contents

Maps

Preface

Prologue

1 A COMPANY WALLAH

2 THE QUAKER KING-MAKER

3 MY SWORD IS MY PASSPORT

4 THE YOUNG ALEXANDER

5 THE DERVISH FROM CHESTER COUNTY

6 FROM PESHAWAR TO KABUL

7 KABUL, CONSPIRACY AND CHOLERA

8 THE ALCHEMIST

9 COURTIER OF LAHORE

10 THE MAHARAJAH’S AMBASSADOR

11 THE KING’S NEAREST FRIEND

12 THE PRINCE OF GHOR

13 PROMETHEUS FROM PENNSYLVANIA

14 A GRAND PROMENADE

15 CAMEL CONNOISSEUR AND GRAPE AGENT

16 HARLAN’S LAST STAND

EPILOGUE Kabul, September 2002

A Note on Sources and Style

Notes

Keep Reading

Select Bibliography

Index

P.S.

About the author

Q & A with Ben Macintyre

LIFE at a Glance

Ten Favourite Books

About the book

A Critical Eye

A Conqueror Gone Native

Read on

Have You Read?

If You Loved This, You’ll Like…

Find Out More

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Also by the Author

About the Publisher

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