The Great Hedge of India - Moxham, Roy
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A study of a "lost wonder of the world", which was sparked off by the chance discovery in a Charing Cross bookshop of the dusty memoirs of a 19th century civil servant. It tells the remarkable story of a mighty hedge whch once spanned the Indian subcontinent, and was a bizarre monument to, and symbol of, the British Raj in India. "A customs barrier 2,300 miles long...manned by 12,000 men, and would have stretched from London to Constantinople, yet few historians mention it and most of us have never heard of it. Can anything be more astonishing?" Jan Morris
The bestselling account of the…mehr

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A study of a "lost wonder of the world", which was sparked off by the chance discovery in a Charing Cross bookshop of the dusty memoirs of a 19th century civil servant. It tells the remarkable story of a mighty hedge whch once spanned the Indian subcontinent, and was a bizarre monument to, and symbol of, the British Raj in India. "A customs barrier 2,300 miles long...manned by 12,000 men, and would have stretched from London to Constantinople, yet few historians mention it and most of us have never heard of it. Can anything be more astonishing?" Jan Morris
The bestselling account of the author's quest for a lost wonder of the world, The Great Hedge of India.
Autorenporträt
Roy Moxham was born and brought up in Evesham in Worcestershire. He has been an art gallery owner, book and paper conservator, and been in charge of conservation at the University of London Library. He is also the author of the Brief History of Tea also published by Robinson.