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The last Englishmen : love, war, and the end of the empire by Auden, J. B.;Baker, Deborah;Sharp, Nancy;Spender, Michael is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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.;"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

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Author

Auden, J. B.;Baker, Deborah;Sharp, Nancy;Spender, Michael

Publisher

Graywolf Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781555979942

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Anthropology, Historical Fiction, History

Updated

2026-03-24