The Mulberry Empire

The Mulberry EmpireBy: Philip Hensher With Tolstoyan sweep and Dickensian vitality, this epically involving historical novel relates Englands tragic adventure in Afghanistan, which began with the triumphant arrival of the Army of the Indus in 1839 and ended three years later in rout and massacre. At the center of The Mulberry Empire is Alexander Burnes, a Scots explorer who travels to the unfathomably remote kingdom of Afghanistan and first befriends and then

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