The King's Shadow: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Deadly Quest for the Lost City of Alexandria

Author: Lecturer in Classics Edmund Richardson (Durham University UK) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A lost city. A thousand-year-old mystery. A quest that changed history. Beneath the plains of Afghanistan lie the remains of a fabulous city: Alexandria Beneath the Mountains, founded by Alexander the Great. For centuries, it was a meeting point of East and West. Then it vanished. In 1833, it was discovered by the unlikeliest person imaginable: Charles Masson, spy, archaeologist, deserter, and the greatest of...Read more