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A sumptuous biographical saga, both intimate and epic, about the waning of the British Empire in IndiaJohn Auden was a pioneering geologist of the Himalayas. Michael Spender was the first to survey the northern approach to the summit 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 Englishman is also the story of a generation. The cast of this exhilarating drama includes Indian and English writers and artists, explorers and...

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Author

Deborah Baker [Baker, Deborah]

Publisher

Graywolf Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781555979942

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Historical Fiction, History, Biography

Rating

3.5 / 5 (54 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14