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Kathryn Tidrick's highly acclaimed book explores the origins of the ideal of British imperial rule and the effect it had on the character of the English ruling classes. From the Lawrence brothers of the Punjab, Rajah James Brooke of Sarawak and Mountbatten to Frederick Courtenay Selous, Elspeth Huxley and Cecil Rhodes, Tidrick illuminates some of the extraordinary lives and actions of the people that formed and governed the British Empire, fro...

A major reinterpretation of Gandhi's life, politics, religion and nation

Offering an interpretation of one of the 20th century's most extraordinary personalities, this book shows how Gandhi's religious beliefs, political career & personal behaviour form a coherent whole. It examines Gandhi's ideas about the relationship between sexual control & power, & the bizarre behaviour that resulted.

What is it about Arabia and her people that has exercised such a powerful allure on generations of English travellers and explorers? "A land whose name could evoke haunting echoes of the unconscious ... a country of the mind more real than any place on a map" had, by the Victorian era, become a deep and lasting obsession for some of the greatest writers and explorers of the time. Here are the stories of some of those men, iconic figures like T...