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Author Name: Charles Allen

Charles Allen is a British writer and historian. He has written many books, some of which are: A Mountain in Tibet: The Search for Mount Kailas and the Sources of the Great Rivers of India, Tales from the Dark Continent: Images of British Colonial Africa in the Twentieth Century, Maharajas: Resonance from the Past and The Buddha and the Sahibs: the Men who Discovered India's Lost Religion.

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Ashoka

-by Charles Allen

Born the son of the Mauryan emperor Bindusara, the grandson of Chandragupta Maurya himself, Ashoka was always bound for greatne... Read More

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A little about me: I always knew I wanted to work with books somehow, so I studied English at university before working in a bookshop, a literary ag Read More...

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‘Here is a fine collection of escape hatches arrayed in front of you: all open, all leading far away from this reality. Why not climb through one and see where it takes you?’ What if machines meant to help humans took over their owners? Or if unending traffic jams forced Swedish detectives to levitate around the Indian city of Bluru? How did the deadly cyclone in the Bay of Benga Read More...

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