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Description edit
The opening volume of Morris’s “Pax Britannica Trilogy,” this richly detailed work traces the rise of the British Empire, from the accession of Queen Victoria to the throne in 1837 to the celebration of her Diamond Jubilee in 1897. Index. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
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Characters/People edit
- Gordon: Add a description of this character.
- Disraeli
- Parnell
- Burton
- Eyre
- Mr Gladstone
- Livingstone
- Macnaghten
- Sleeman
- Jameson
- Speke
- Garry
- George
- Kruger
- Rhodes
- Riel
- Hodson
- Shah Shuja
- Robinson
- John Lawrence
- Cakobau
- Colenso
- Dingaan
- Palmerston
- Garnet Wolseley
- Wakefield
- O'brien
- Nicholson
- Burnes
- William Butler
- Colley
- Retief
- Bogle
- Nelson
- Albert
- Smith
- Hudson
- Rorke
- Grant
- Waghom
- Elphinstone
- Victoria
- John Russell
- Ruskin
- Henry
- Tennyson
- Wheeler
Setting & Locations edit
- East India Company
- England
- Ireland
- London
- South Africa
- Great Britain
- Canada
- Egypt
- Kabul
- Khartoum
- Sudan
- Delhi
- Calcutta
- United States
- Transvaal
- Europe
- Pacific
- Jamaica
- Punjab
- Sydney
- Tasmania
- Fiji
- Dublin
- Corfu
- Cape Town
- Australia
- Afghanistan
- New Zealand
- Lucknow
- Ottawa
- Cairo
- Zululand
- Johannesburg
- China
- Norway House
- America
- Sind
- Zanzibar
- Malta
- Sierra Leone
- Pretoria
- Bermuda
- Atlantic
- Cawnpore
- West Africa
- Cephalonia
- Bengal
First Sentence edit
IN October 1837 the Honourable Emily Eden, a witty and acomplished Englishwoman in her forty-first year, was accompanying her brother Lord Auckland, Governor-General of India, on an official progress up-country from Calcutta.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Jan Morris (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Harcourt
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1974
ISBN: 015139900X
Page Count: 554
Publisher: Harcourt
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1974
ISBN: 015139900X
Page Count: 554
Classification edit
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- Dewey: 909
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