Alexandria av Dr Edmund (Lecturer in Classics Durham University UK) Richardson

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<b>''Not all lost cities are real, but this one was.''</b><b>The extraordinary story of Alexander the Great''s lost city, and a quest to unravel one of the most captivating mysteries in ancient history.</b><b>¿Superb</b> ¿ impeccably researched, but with the pace and deftly woven plot <b>complexity of a John le Carr¿ovel</b> ... <b>utterly brilliant</b>¿ William Dalrymple, <i>Guardian</i>¿[An] <b>exceptional biography</b> ... This is <b>a jewel of a book</b>¿ <i>Sunday Times</i>¿A <b>brilliant and evocative</b> biography, written with consummate scholarship, <b>great style and wit</b>¿ <i>Daily Telegraph</i><b><i>______</i></b>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¿s mos