The first comprehensive and authoritative history of the Koh-i Noor, arguably the most celebrated and mythologised jewel in the world. On 29 March 1849, the ten-year-old Maharajah of the Punjab was ushered into the magnificent Mirrored Hall at the centre of the great Fort in Lahore. There, in a public ceremony, the frightened but dignified child handed over to the British East India Company in a formal Act of Submission to Queen Victoria not only swathes of the richest land in India, but also arguably the single most valuable object in the subcontinent: the celebrated Koh-i Noor diamond Koh-I-Noor - William Dalrymple, Anita Anand od authora William Dalrymple, Anita Anand a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.
Autor |
William Dalrymple, Anita Anand |
Jazyk |
anglický |
Počet stran |
240 |
Rok vydání |
2017 |
Typ |
filmy |
Nakladatelství |
Bloomsbury |