Author: Sir Arthur Clarke
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Category : Balneology
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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An Essay on Warm, Cold, and Vapour Bathing
Author: Sir Arthur Clarke
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Category : Balneology
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Category : Balneology
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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The Travels of Dean Mahomet
Author: Dean Mahomet
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520918517
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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This unusual study combines two books in one: the 1794 autobiographical travel narrative of an Indian, Dean Mahomet, recalling his years as camp-follower, servant, and subaltern officer in the East India Company's army (1769 to 1784); and Michael H. Fisher's portrayal of Mahomet's sojourn as an insider/outsider in India, Ireland, and England. Emigrating to Britain and living there for over half a century, Mahomet started what was probably the first Indian restaurant in England and then enjoyed a distinguished career as a practitioner of "oriental" medicine, i.e., therapeutic massage and herbal steam bath, in London and the seaside resort of Brighton. This is a fascinating account of life in late eighteenth-century India—the first book written in English by an Indian—framed by a mini-biography of a remarkably versatile entrepreneur. Travels presents an Indian's view of the British conquest of India and conveys the vital role taken by Indians in the colonial process, especially as they negotiated relations with Britons both in the colonial periphery and the imperial metropole. Connoisseurs of unusual travel narratives, historians of England, Ireland, and British India, as well as literary scholars of autobiography and colonial discourse will find much in this book. But it also offers an engaging biography of a resourceful, multidimensional individual.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520918517
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This unusual study combines two books in one: the 1794 autobiographical travel narrative of an Indian, Dean Mahomet, recalling his years as camp-follower, servant, and subaltern officer in the East India Company's army (1769 to 1784); and Michael H. Fisher's portrayal of Mahomet's sojourn as an insider/outsider in India, Ireland, and England. Emigrating to Britain and living there for over half a century, Mahomet started what was probably the first Indian restaurant in England and then enjoyed a distinguished career as a practitioner of "oriental" medicine, i.e., therapeutic massage and herbal steam bath, in London and the seaside resort of Brighton. This is a fascinating account of life in late eighteenth-century India—the first book written in English by an Indian—framed by a mini-biography of a remarkably versatile entrepreneur. Travels presents an Indian's view of the British conquest of India and conveys the vital role taken by Indians in the colonial process, especially as they negotiated relations with Britons both in the colonial periphery and the imperial metropole. Connoisseurs of unusual travel narratives, historians of England, Ireland, and British India, as well as literary scholars of autobiography and colonial discourse will find much in this book. But it also offers an engaging biography of a resourceful, multidimensional individual.
Aberdeen University Studies
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Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Subject Catalogue of the Phillips Library of Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Author: Phillips Library (Marischal College)
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Category : Classification
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Category : Classification
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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The New Monthly Magazine and Universal Register
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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The Edinburgh Annual Register
Author: Walter Scott
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 768
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 768
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The Edinburgh annual register
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Languages : en
Pages : 766
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Languages : en
Pages : 766
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A Catalogue of the Medical Library of the Philadelphia Alms-house
Author: Philadelphia (Pa.). Almshouse. Library
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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The Edinburgh Annual Register, for 1808-26
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 778
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 778
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register
Author: Thomas Campbell
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Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Languages : en
Pages : 608
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