Description A sumptuous biographical saga, both intimate and epic, about the waning of the British Empire in India John Auden was a pioneering geologist of the Himalaya.
She lives in India and New York..
About the Author Deborah Baker is the author of Making a Farm
In Extremis, which was short-listed for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography
A Blue Hand; and The Convert, which was a finalist for the National Book Award.
Dense with romance and intrigue, and of startling relevance for the great power games of our own day, Deborah Baker\'s The Last Englishmen is an engrossing story that traces the end of Empire and the stirring of a new world order.
Key among them is a highborn Bengali poet named Sudhin Datta, a melancholy soul torn, like many of his generation, between hatred of the British Empire and a deep Love of European literature, whose life would be upended by the arrival of war on his Calcutta doorstep.
The cast of this exhilarating drama includes Indian and English writers and artists, explorers and Communist spies, Die Hards and Indian nationalists, political rogues and police informers.
Set in Calcutta, London, the glacier-locked wilds of the Karakoram, and on Everest itself, The Last Englishmen is also the story of a generation.
Her choice would determine where each man\'s wartime loyalties would lie.
To this rivalry was added another: in the summer of 1938 both men fell in Love with a painter named Nancy Sharp.
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.
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While their younger brothers--W.
Michael Spender was the first to draw a detailed map of the North Face of Mount Everest.
Description A sumptuous biographical saga, both intimate and epic, about the waning of the British Empire in India John Auden was a pioneering geologist of the Himalaya
