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100 1  Richardson, Edmund,|d1982-|eauthor. 
245 14 The king's shadow :|bobsession, betrayal, and the deadly 
       quest for the Lost City of Alexandria /|cEdmund 
       Richardson. 
246 30 Obsession, betrayal, and the deadly quest for the Lost 
       City of Alexandria 
250    First U.S. edition. 
264  1 New York :|bSt. Martin's Press,|c2022. 
300    328 pages :|billustrations ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    "Originally published in Great Britain under the title 
       Alexandria by Bloomsbury Publishing." 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-318) and 
       index. 
505 00 |tThe Runaway --|tThe Illusionists --|tThe Storyteller --
       |tThe Wild East --|tThe City Beneath the Mountains --|tThe
       Golden Casket --|tPothos --|tOur Man in Kabul --|tStranger
       than Fiction --|tThe Age of Everything --|tThe Second 
       Alexander --|tLast Resort --|tNo Return --|tWorlds to 
       Conquer --|tThe Chamber of Blood --|tThe Prisoner --|tThe 
       Spy --|tEntrails --|tFrontiers --|tThe Man Who Would be 
       King --|tThe Lamp-Lighter. 
520    "Impeccably researched, and written like a thriller, 
       Edmund Richardson's The King's Shadow is the extraordinary
       untold and wild journey of Charles Masson - think Butch 
       Cassidy and the Sundance Kid meets Indiana Jones - and his
       search for the Lost City of Alexandria in the "Wild East" 
       during the age of empires, kings, and spies. For centuries
       the city of Alexandria Beneath the Mountains was a meeting
       point of East and West. Then it vanished. In 1833 it was 
       discovered in Afghanistan by the unlikeliest person 
       imaginable: Charles Masson, deserter, pilgrim, doctor, 
       archaeologist, spy, one of the most respected scholars in 
       Asia, and the greatest of nineteenth-century travelers. On
       the way into one of history's most extraordinary stories, 
       he would take tea with kings, travel with holy men and 
       become the master of a hundred disguises; he would see 
       things no westerner had glimpsed before and few have 
       glimpsed since. He would spy for the East India Company 
       and be suspected of spying for Russia at the same time, 
       for this was the era of the Great Game, when imperial 
       powers confronted each other in these staggeringly 
       beautiful lands. Masson discovered tens of thousands of 
       pieces of Afghan history, including the 2,000-year-old 
       Bimaran golden casket, which has upon it the earliest 
       known face of the Buddha. He would be offered his own 
       kingdom; he would change the world, and the world would 
       destroy him. This is a wild journey through nineteenth-
       century India and Afghanistan, with impeccably researched 
       storytelling that shows us a world of espionage and 
       dreamers, ne'er-do-wells and opportunists, extreme 
       violence both personal and military, and boundless hope. 
       At the edge of empire, amid the deserts and the mountains,
       it is the story of an obsession passed down the centuries"
       --|cProvided by publisher. 
600 10 Masson, Charles,|d1800-1853. 
600 10 Masson, Charles,|d1800-1853|xTravel|zAfghanistan. 
610 20 East India Company|xHistory|y19th century. 
650  0 Extinct cities|zAfghanistan|zBagrām. 
650  0 Archaeologists|zGreat Britain|vBiography. 
651  0 Afghanistan|xDiscovery and exploration|xBritish. 
651  0 Afghanistan|xAntiquities. 
651  0 Afghanistan|xHistory|y19th century. 
651  0 India|xHistory|y19th century. 
775 08 |iAlso issued as:|aRichardson, Edmund, 1982-|tAlexandria
       |bLondon, UK ; New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021
       |z9781526603784.