Journey To The City Of Six Gates
Title | Journey To The City Of Six Gates PDF eBook |
Author | Graeme Macqueen |
Publisher | Tulika Books |
Total Pages | 232 |
Release | 2006-04 |
Genre | Historical fiction, Indic (English) |
ISBN | 9788181461452 |
Princess Mati awakens from a troubled sleep to find that her life has changed overnight � enemies have invaded the Land of Gold and abducted her parents, the King and Queen. Fourteen-year-old Mati and her twelve-year-old brother, Satya, are secretly spirited away by the loyal Jaya Prabhasa, the most accomplished warrior in the land. As they journey through a world they have never known in all their sheltered existence, and are put to the test by an eccentric flying sadhu, Mati and Satya acquire some extraordinary skills to survive mysterious forests and perilous swamps. But are these sufficient to help the three companions evade marauding armies and rescue their parents? This adventure fantasy set in ancient India, long before the region acquired the name, is written in the engaging style of a historical thriller. Its heroes must discover how to deal with injustice without descending to the level of their violent persecutors. Through contemplative poetic incantation and robust uncluttered prose, it also weaves into its fabric issues such as the status of women and care for the environment.
Six Gates from Limbo
Title | Six Gates from Limbo PDF eBook |
Author | J. T. McIntosh |
Publisher | Corgi |
Total Pages | 158 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780552083218 |
Advaita the Writer
Title | Advaita the Writer PDF eBook |
Author | Ken Spillman |
Publisher | Tulika Books |
Total Pages | 56 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Authors |
ISBN | 9788181469663 |
A story about the love of books, the power of the imagination, of literary heroes and of the birth of dreams.
Kabir The Weaver-Poet
Title | Kabir The Weaver-Poet PDF eBook |
Author | Jaya Madhavan |
Publisher | Tulika Books |
Total Pages | 144 |
Release | 2004-02 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9788181461681 |
The Church at Home and Abroad
Title | The Church at Home and Abroad PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Addison Nelson |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 586 |
Release | 1897 |
Genre | Presbyterian Church |
ISBN |
For God, Mammon, And Country
Title | For God, Mammon, And Country PDF eBook |
Author | Shireen Mahdavi |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 306 |
Release | 2018-02-13 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0429980035 |
This book is the first major account of the life and times of a merchant in nineteenth-century Iran or in the Middle East. Haj Muhammad Amin al-Zarb (1834?1898) rose from humble beginnings to become one of Iran's wealthiest and most prominent merchants. He built up his wealth as a money changer, a trader in textiles, precious stones, opium, carpets, agricultural products, and staple foodstuffs amongst other goods, and judicious transactions in land. Adept at cultivating powerful connections, he became the principal supplier of luxury goods to the Shah, his court, and members of the ruling elite; served as private banker to the Shah, his prime minister, and influential bureaucrats; and became Master of the Mint. He had agents in all the main towns of Persia and Europe with correspondents in Asia and America.Amin al-Zarb was also an entrepreneur, industrialist, and innovator. Determined to bring to Iran the advances he had witnessed in Europe, he invested in mining, established factories with imported machinery (such as glass, china, and silk reeling), built a railway line, and urged the Shah to establish a national bank. He also became an advocate of reform and curbs on arbitrary rule. He befriended the famous Islamic reformer, Jamal al-Din Afghani. An innovator in business, Amin al-Zarb led a very traditional life at home. Gifted at making money, he was nevertheless a pious man who contributed generously to religious and charitable causes. Shireen Mahdavi draws on hitherto unpublished family archives to write not only a biography of a fascinating nineteenth-century merchant but also a social history of the period. Her portrait of Amin al-Zarb also provides important insights into the economic, social, and political role played by merchants in Iran and elsewhere in the Middle East in the nineteenth century.
Notes of a Journey Outside the Great Wall of China
Title | Notes of a Journey Outside the Great Wall of China PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Wootton Bushell |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 36 |
Release | 1875 |
Genre | China |
ISBN |