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Alexandria: The Quest for the Lost City

by Edmund Richardson

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, an ordinary working-class boy from London turned deserter, pilgrim, doctor, archaeologist and highly respected scholar. On the way into one of history

Publisher

Bloomsbury

Publication date

2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9781526603784