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The Mulberry Empire, Or, The Two Virtuous Journeys of the Amir Dost Mohammed Khan by Philip Hensher, Philip Hensher

The Mulberry Empire, Or, The Two Virtuous Journeys of the Amir Dost Mohammed Khan

Philip Hensher, Philip Hensher

481 pages first pub 2002 (view editions)

fiction historical adventurous emotional sad slow-paced
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In the spring of 1839, some fifty thousand British forces entered Afghanistan with “the full pomp of Empire,” possessed of the certainty that they would replace the Amir with someone less hostile toward their ally, the King of the Punjab. Three ye...

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