The Resource The last Englishmen : love, war, and the end of empire, Deborah Baker
The last Englishmen : love, war, and the end of empire, Deborah Baker
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- Summary
- "John Auden was a pioneering geologist of the Himalaya. 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"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xxiv, 358 pages
- Contents
-
- part I. To live as on a mountain: The lakes ; The steamship and the spinning wheel ; Bengali Baboo ; The thrust fault ; Triangles ; The school of art
- part II. The impersonal eye: Perfect monsters ; Goddess Mother of the world ; I spy ; The Moscow agent ; In the ice mountains ; Taking a hat off a mouse ; The truth about love
- part III. The fall of the gods: Somewhere a strange and shrewd tomorrow ; The magnified earth ; A representative Indian ; An infinite ocean of sorrow ; A boy falling out of the sky ; Incompatible gods, irreconcilable differences ; Night falls
- Isbn
- 9781555978044
- Label
- The last Englishmen : love, war, and the end of empire
- Title
- The last Englishmen
- Title remainder
- love, war, and the end of empire
- Statement of responsibility
- Deborah Baker
- Subject
-
- Auden, J. B, 1903-1991
- trueExplorers
- Explorers -- Great Britain
- Explorers -- Great Britain -- Biography
- trueGeologists
- Geologists -- Great Britain -- Biography
- trueHimalaya Mountains
- trueImperialism, British
- trueIndia -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947
- trueMount Everest
- truePostcolonialism
- Sharp, Nancy, 1909-2001
- Spender, Michael, 1907-1945
- trueSurveyors
- Surveyors -- Great Britain -- Biography
- British -- India -- Social life and customs
- British -- India -- History
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "John Auden was a pioneering geologist of the Himalaya. 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"--
- Assigning source
- Publisher's description
- Biography type
- individual biography
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10691939
- Cataloging source
- YDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1959-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Baker, Deborah
- Dewey number
- 954/.035
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- G246.A93
- LC item number
- B35 2018
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Auden, J. B
- Spender, Michael
- Sharp, Nancy
- Explorers
- Surveyors
- Geologists
- India
- British
- British
- Target audience
- adult
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- love, war, and the end of empire
- Label
- The last Englishmen : love, war, and the end of empire, Deborah Baker
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-350) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- part I. To live as on a mountain: The lakes ; The steamship and the spinning wheel ; Bengali Baboo ; The thrust fault ; Triangles ; The school of art -- part II. The impersonal eye: Perfect monsters ; Goddess Mother of the world ; I spy ; The Moscow agent ; In the ice mountains ; Taking a hat off a mouse ; The truth about love -- part III. The fall of the gods: Somewhere a strange and shrewd tomorrow ; The magnified earth ; A representative Indian ; An infinite ocean of sorrow ; A boy falling out of the sky ; Incompatible gods, irreconcilable differences ; Night falls
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xxiv, 358 pages
- Isbn
- 9781555978044
- Lccn
- 2017953357
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- on1002562236
- (OCoLC)1002562236
- Label
- The last Englishmen : love, war, and the end of empire, Deborah Baker
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-350) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- part I. To live as on a mountain: The lakes ; The steamship and the spinning wheel ; Bengali Baboo ; The thrust fault ; Triangles ; The school of art -- part II. The impersonal eye: Perfect monsters ; Goddess Mother of the world ; I spy ; The Moscow agent ; In the ice mountains ; Taking a hat off a mouse ; The truth about love -- part III. The fall of the gods: Somewhere a strange and shrewd tomorrow ; The magnified earth ; A representative Indian ; An infinite ocean of sorrow ; A boy falling out of the sky ; Incompatible gods, irreconcilable differences ; Night falls
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xxiv, 358 pages
- Isbn
- 9781555978044
- Lccn
- 2017953357
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- on1002562236
- (OCoLC)1002562236
Subject
- Auden, J. B, 1903-1991
- trueExplorers
- Explorers -- Great Britain
- Explorers -- Great Britain -- Biography
- trueGeologists
- Geologists -- Great Britain -- Biography
- trueHimalaya Mountains
- trueImperialism, British
- trueIndia -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947
- trueMount Everest
- truePostcolonialism
- Sharp, Nancy, 1909-2001
- Spender, Michael, 1907-1945
- trueSurveyors
- Surveyors -- Great Britain -- Biography
- British -- India -- Social life and customs
- British -- India -- History
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