LEADER 00000nim a22005415a 4500 003 MWT 005 20191125024853.0 006 m o h 007 sz zunnnnnuned 007 cr nnannnuuuua 008 180824s2018 xxunnn es i n eng d 020 9781684413911 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 020 1684413915 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 029 https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ rcb_9781684413911_180.jpeg 028 42 MWT12193820 037 12193820|bMidwest Tape, LLC|nhttp://www.midwesttapes.com 040 Midwest|erda 082 04 954/.035|223 099 eAudiobook hoopla 099 eAudiobook hoopla 100 1 Baker, Deborah,|d1959-|eauthor. 245 14 The last Englishmen :|blove, war, and the end of empire |h[Hoopla electronic resource] /|cDeborah Baker. 250 Unabridged. 264 1 [United States] :|bHighBridge,|c2018. 264 2 |bMade available through hoopla 300 1 online resource (1 audio file (14hr., 08 min.)) : |bdigital. 336 spoken word|bspw|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 344 digital|hdigital recording|2rda 347 data file|2rda 506 Digital content provided by hoopla. 511 1 Read by James Cameron Stewart. 520 John Auden was a pioneering geologist of the Himalayas. Michael Spender was the first to draw a detailed map of the North Face of Mount Everest. While their younger brothers-W. H. Auden and Stephen Spender-achieved literary fame, they vied to be included on an expedition that would deliver Everest's summit to an Englishman, a quest that had become a metaphor for Britain's struggle to maintain power over India. To this rivalry was added another: In the summer of 1938, both men fell in love with a painter named Nancy Sharp. Her choice would determine where each man's wartime loyalties would lie. Set in Calcutta, London, the glacier-locked wilds of the Karakoram, and on Everest itself, The Last Englishmen is also the story of a generation. The cast of this exhilarating drama includes Indian and English writers and artists, explorers and Communist spies, Die Hards and Indian nationalists, political rogues and police informers. Key among them is a highborn Bengali poet named Sudhin Datta, a melancholy soul torn, like many of his generation, between hatred of the British Empire and a deep love of European literature, whose life would be upended by the arrival of war on his Calcutta doorstep. 538 Mode of access: World Wide Web. 600 10 Auden, J. B.,|d1903-1991. 600 10 Spender, Michael,|d1907-1945. 600 10 Sharp, Nancy,|d1909-2001. 650 0 Explorers|zGreat Britain|vBiography. 650 0 Surveyors|zGreat Britain|vBiography. 650 0 Geologists|zGreat Britain|vBiography. 650 0 British|zIndia|xHistory. 650 0 British|zIndia|xSocial life and customs. 651 0 India|xHistory|yBritish occupation, 1765-1947. 700 1 Stewart, James Cameron. 710 2 hoopla digital. 856 40 |uhttps://www.hoopladigital.com/title/ 12193820?utm_source=MARC|zInstantly available on hoopla. 856 42 |zCover image|uhttps://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ rcb_9781684413911_180.jpeg