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Josiah the Great - The True Story of the Man Who Would be King (Paperback)
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Josiah the Great - The True Story of the Man Who Would be King (Paperback)
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The amazing tale of a resourceful and unscrupulous
early-19th-century American adventurer who forges his own kingdom
in the wilds of Afghanistan. In the year 1838, a young adventurer,
surrounded by his native troops and mounted on an elephant, raised
the American flag on the summit of the Hindu Kush and declared
himself Prince of Ghor, the heir to Alexander the Great. Josiah
Harlan, the first American to set foot in Afghanistan, would become
the model for Kipling's 'The Man Who Would be King', but the true
story of his life is stranger than fiction. A soldier, spy, doctor,
naturalist and writer, Harlan set off into the wilds of Central
Asia after a failed love affair in 1820. Following a brief stint as
a surgeon in the East India Company's army, he joined the court of
the deposed Afghan monarch Shah Shujah, and then slipped into Kabul
disguised as a Muslim priest to foment rebellion. For the next two
decades he would play a pivotal role in the bloody politics of the
region. Using a trove of newly discovered documents, including
Harlan's long-lost journals, Ben Macintyre has followed Harlan's
footsteps to uncover an astonishing, untold chapter in the history
of the Great Game. If you enjoyed William Dalrymple's 'Return of a
King', 'Josiah the Great' should be on your reading list.
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