Flamingo, 2002, Softcover, Book Condition: Very Good, First
First Impression. Size: 8vo Octavo (standard book size). 538 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Edges browned slightly. This book is available and will be shipped within two business days. All items are tracked and details are available on request.. With 'The Mulberry Empire', Philip Hensher with his fourth book has now happened upon a subject that suits his many talents perfectly. It's a seemingly straightforward historical novel that recounts an episode in the Great Game in central Asia - the courtship, betrayal and invasion of Afghanistan in the 1830s by the emissaries of Her Majesty's Empire, which is followed by a bloody and summary expulsion of the Brits from Kabul following an Afghani insurrection (shades of the Soviet Union's final imperial fling in the very same country in the 1980s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; ISBN: 0007139276. ISBN/EAN: 9780007139279. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 5274.
First Impression. Size: 8vo Octavo (standard book size). 538 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Edges browned slightly. This book is available and will be shipped within two business days. All items are tracked and details are available on request.. With 'The Mulberry Empire', Philip Hensher with his fourth book has now happened upon a subject that suits his many talents perfectly. It's a seemingly straightforward historical novel that recounts an episode in the Great Game in central Asia - the courtship, betrayal and invasion of Afghanistan in the 1830s by the emissaries of Her Majesty's Empire, which is followed by a bloody and summary expulsion of the Brits from Kabul following an Afghani insurrection (shades of the Soviet Union's final imperial fling in the very same country in the 1980s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; ISBN: 0007139276. ISBN/EAN: 9780007139279. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 5274.