02746cam a2200361 4500 615109316 TxAuBib 20230105120000.0 ||||||s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781666168839 1666168831 6be3cdfc-97e6-4522-b0f2-00a4963cf3df OverDrive (Reserve ID) 8721013 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Richardson, Edmund. The King's Shadow [Libby Audiobook] : Obsession, Betrayal, and the Deadly Quest for the Lost City of Alexandria. Tantor Media, Inc., 2022. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 228MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 228MB. Archaeology. Historical. Biography. Adventure. For centuries the city of Alexandria Beneath the Mountains was a meeting point of East and West. Then it vanished. In 1833 it was discovered in Afghanistan by the unlikeliest person imaginable: Charles Masson, deserter, pilgrim, doctor, archaeologist, spy, one of the most respected scholars in Asia, and the greatest of nineteenth-century travelers. On the way into one of history's most extraordinary stories, he would take tea with kings, travel with holy men and become the master of a hundred disguises; he would see things no westerner had glimpsed before and few have glimpsed since. He would spy for the East India Company and be suspected of spying for Russia at the same time, for this was the era of the Great Game, when imperial powers confronted each other in these staggeringly beautiful lands. Masson discovered tens of thousands of pieces of Afghan history, including the 2,000-year-old Bimaran golden casket, which has upon it the earliest known face of the Buddha. He would be offered his own kingdom; he would change the world, and the world would destroy him. This is a wild journey through nineteenth-century India and Afghanistan, with impeccably researched storytelling that shows us a world of espionage and dreamers, ne'er-do-wells and opportunists, extreme violence both personal and military, and boundless hope. Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. History. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2023-01-04 20:00:03. Elfer, Julian. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6be3cdfc-97e6-4522-b0f2-00a4963cf3df&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6be3cdfc-97e6-4522-b0f2-00a4963cf3df&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) TXGID