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Fully revised with forty thousand new words that take the reader up to present-day India, John Keay’s India: A History spans five millennia in a sweeping narrative that tells the story of the peoples…
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India - A History. Revised and Updated

By John Keay ( 565 customer ratings) Grove/Atlantic, Inc., April 2011 ISBN: 9780802195500 Eastern Religions, Hinduism Language: English
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Three thousand years of Chinese history in an accessible and authoritative single volume. Despite the recent rise of China to a position of dominance on the world economic stage, Chinese history…
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China: A History

By John Keay ( 179 customer ratings) HarperCollins Publishers, April 2010 ISBN: 9780007372089 Language: English
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A history of the English East India company. During 200 years the East India Company grew from a loose association of Elizabethan tradesmen into "the grandest society of merchants in the universe". As…
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The Honourable Company

By John Keay ( 74 customer ratings) HarperCollins Publishers, July 2010 ISBN: 9780007395545 Language: English
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Eating Dirt in Venezuela - Alexander von Humboldt Geographer, geologist, naturalist, anthropologist, physician and philosopher, Baron von Humboldt brought to exploration a greater range of enquiry…
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The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places: South America

By John Keay Constable & Robinson, June 2012 ISBN: 9781472100092 Travel, Adventure & Literary Travel Language: English
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Alarms amongst the Uzbeks - Alexander Burnes Of all the "forbidden" cities (Timbuktu, Mecca, Lhasa, Riyadh and so on) none enjoyed a more fearsome reputation that Bukhara in Uzbekistan. The first…
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The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places: Central and South Asia

By John Keay ( 1 customer rating) Constable & Robinson, June 2012 ISBN: 9781472100030 Travel, Adventure & Literary Travel Language: English
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Four Years in the Ice - John Ross Disgraced and dishonored for his report of an imaginary mountain range blocking the most likely access to the North West Passage, in 1829 Ross returned to Canada's…
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The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places: Arctic

By John Keay Constable & Robinson, June 2012 ISBN: 9781472100108 Travel, Adventure & Literary Travel Language: English
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Landfall at Botany Bay - James Cook The son of a Yorkshire farm labourer, Cook won distinction as a naval hydrographer but was still a controversial choice to command a voyage of scientific…
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The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places: Australia

By John Keay Constable & Robinson, June 2012 ISBN: 9781472100078 Travel, Adventure & Literary Travel Language: English
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Escape from Riyadh - William Gifford Palgrave A scholar and a solider, a Jesuit and a Jew, a French spy and a British ambassador- Palgrave was a man of contradictions, all of them highly compromised…
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The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places: Arabia

By John Keay ( 2 customer ratings) Constable & Robinson, June 2012 ISBN: 9781472100047 Travel, Adventure & Literary Travel Language: English
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Stranded on Bering Island - Georg Wilhelm Steller As physician and scientific know-all on Vitus Bering's 1741 voyage, Steller shared its triumphs, including landing the first Europeans in Alaska. He…
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The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places: Siberia and Alaska

By John Keay Constable & Robinson, June 2012 ISBN: 9781472100726 Travel, Adventure & Literary Travel Language: English
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Among the Sudanese - James Bruce Bruce reached the source of the Blue Nile in 1771, a century before the search for the source of the White Nile became headline news. His descriptions of the cruelties…
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The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places: East and Central Africa

By John Keay Constable & Robinson, June 2012 ISBN: 9781472100061 Travel, Adventure & Literary Travel Language: English
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