ISBNコード 9780907871095

Memoirs of a Bengal Civilian Revised/ELAND PUB/John Beames

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コード番号	9780907871095
コードタイプ	ISBN
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商品名	Memoirs of a Bengal Civilian Revised/ELAND PUB/John Beames
発売日	2004年
商品ジャンル	本・雑誌・コミック > 洋書 > TRAVEL
コメント	No one could have invented John Beames, whose vibrant and original memoirs were discovered by chance in an attic almost a century after they were written. He arrived in India in 1858, the year after the Mutiny, and worked there as a civil servant for the next thirty-five years, defending powerless peasants against rapacious planters, improvising fifteen-gun salutes for visiting dignitaries, and presiding over the blissful coast of Orissa. His acquaintances spanned from lofty Rajas to dissolute Englishmen. Vivid, candid, and without fear of authority. Beames was a defiant individual in a huge bureaucracy. He writes with a rich, descriptive prose in the manner of Defoe and Dickens. Now back in print and in paperback, Beames's Memoirs were originally published in 1961 (Chatto & Windus and Hippocrene).
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