The last Englishmen : love, war and the end of empire / Deborah Baker.
Publication details: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, 2018.Description: xxiv, 358 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780701188948 (hardback)
- 9781555978464
- Auden, J. B., 1903-1991
- Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973
- Spender, Stephen, 1909-1995
- Sharp, Nancy, 1909-2001
- Auden, J. B., 1903-1991
- Spender, Michael, 1907-1945
- British Occupation of India (1765-1947)
- 1765-1947
- British
- British -- Social life and customs
- Explorers
- Geologists
- Surveyors
- World War, 1939-1945
- Explorers -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Surveyors -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Geologists -- Great Britain -- Biography
- British -- India -- History
- British -- India -- Social life and customs
- Great Britain
- India
- Great Britain -- Biography
- Everest, Mount (China and Nepal) -- History -- 20th century
- India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947
- 954.035
- G246.A93 B35 2018
- Also issued online.
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 954.035 BAK | Available | 069551 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-350) and index.
Machine generated contents note: pt. I To Live as on a Mountain -- 1.The Lakes -- 2.The Steamship and the Spinning Wheel -- 3.Bengali Baboo -- 4.The Thrust Fault -- 5.Triangles -- 6.The School of Art -- pt. II The Impersonal Eye -- 7.Perfect Monsters -- 8.Goddess Mother of the World -- 9.I Spy -- 10.The Moscow Agent -- 11.In the Ice Mountains -- 12.Taking a Hat off a Mouse -- 13.The Truth about Love -- pt. III The Fall of the Gods -- 14.Somewhere a Strange and Shrewd Tomorrow -- 15.The Magnified Earth -- 16.A Representative Indian -- 17.An Infinite Ocean of Sorrow -- 18.A Boy Falling Out of the Sky -- 19.Incompatible Gods, Irreconcilable Differences -- 20.Night Falls.
John 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 for a place on an expedition that would finally conquer Everest, a quest that had become a metaphor for Britain's efforts 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 each man's wartime loyalties.
Also issued online.