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His books have won numerous awards and prizes, including the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize, the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award, the Hemingway, the Kapuściński and Wolfson Prizes. William Dalrymple is a British historian and writer, as well as an award-winning broadcaster and critic. With the battlefields of the Seven Years War still smouldering across the globe, we journey to the edges of the Moghul Empire along the banks of the Ganges to visit 1764, a year of bloodshed and confusion a year that would change the history of India forever. Leo Tolstoy once wondered: How could a commercial company from London manage to enslave a nation comprising 200 million people on the other side of the world? The history of the East India Company is astonishing. In this episode of Travels Through Time we join one of the world’s leading historians, William Dalrymple, who takes us on a tour of 1764 to try and explain how the East India Company became “An empire within an empire” Soon Miri finds herself confronted with a harsh academy mistress, bitter competition among the girls, and her own conflicting desires. The king's ministers set up an academy on the mountain, and every teenage girl must attend and learn how to become a princess. In a year's time, the prince will choose his bride from among the village girls. Then word comes that the king's priests have divined her village the home of the future princess. Miri lives on a mountain where, for generations, her ancestors have lived a simple life. In this first book in New York Times bestselling, Newbery Honor-winning author Shannon Hale's Princess Academy series, Miri finds herself a sudden participant in a contest to find the next princess of the realm. Novelist Madeleine Houser arranges a temporary office in a local bed and breakfast to escape the distracting renovations on her own house. And for Seth, it's the chance to finally win her heart. For Layla, this engagement of convenience is the chance to save her career. Seth has secretly loved Layla for years, but she's never given him the time of day. When Layla O'Reilly and Seth Murphy make their engagement public, she knows it's only to convince a major client that she's high-society enough to work for his agency. The honor of your presence is requested at three winter weddings. Cozy up by the fireplace for three heartwarming stories of love and weddings in the wintertime. It seems that the final days of the Gzilt civilisation are likely to prove its most perilous. She must find the oldest person in the Culture, a man over nine thousand years old, who might have some idea what really happened all that time ago. Aided only by an ancient, reconditioned android and a suspicious Culture avatar, Cossont must complete her last mission given to her by the High Command. Lieutenant Commander (reserve) Vyr Cossont appears to have been involved, and she is now wanted – dead, not alive. Now they’ve made the collective decision to follow the well-trodden path of millions of other civilisations: they are going to Sublime, elevating themselves to a new and almost infinitely more rich and complex existence.Īmid preparations though, the Regimental High Command is destroyed. It is, truly, the End Days for the Gzilt civilisation.Īn ancient people, organised on military principles and yet almost perversely peaceful, the Gzilt helped set up the Culture ten thousand years earlier and were very nearly one of its founding societies, deciding not to join only at the last moment. Banks, a modern master of science fiction. An ancient people, they helped set up the Culture ten thousand years earlier and were very. The tenth Culture book from the awesome imagination of Iain M. It is, truly, provably, the End Days for the Gzilt civilization. |