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  • The Buddha and the Sahibs

    by Charles Allen ...
    Today there are many Buddhists in the West, but for 2000 years the Buddha's teachings were unknown outside Asia. It was not until the late 18th century, when Sir William Oriental Jones, a British judge in India, broke through the Brahmin's prohibition on learning their sacred language. Sanskrit, that clues about the origins of a religion quite distinct from Hinduism began to be deciphered from ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Aryans

    The Search for a People, a Place and a Myth

    by Charles Allen ...
    Few themes in history have had as strong a hold on people's imagination. Fewer still have managed to alter the course of civilization.This is Charles Allen's definitive account of the Aryans, offering a grand sweep of language, mythology, contested histories and conflict. Spanning continents, cultures and societies: from the Russian steppe to the Indus valley, the Iliad to the Mahabharata, Greek ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Coromandel

    A Personal History of South India

    by Charles Allen ...
    COROMANDEL. A name which has been long applied by Europeans to the Northern Tamil Country, or (more comprehensively) to the eastern coast of the Peninsula of India.This is the India highly acclaimed historian Charles Allen visits in this fascinating book. Coromandel journeys south, exploring the less well known, often neglected and very different history and identity of the pre-Aryan Dravidian ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Duel in the Snows

    by Charles Allen ...
    In December 1903 a British army marched over the Himalayas to counter a non-existent Russian threat and was confronted by a medieval Tibetan army ordered to stop it by non-violent means. It was a clash between the mightiest political power in the world and the weakest.Leading the mission was the charismatic Francis Younghusband. Commanding the army escort was an officer determined to do things by ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Search For Shangri-La

    A Journey into Tibetan History

    by Charles Allen ...
    The idea of a hidden refuge, a paradise far from the stresses of modern life, has universal appeal. In 1932 the writer James Hilton coined the word 'Shangri-La' to describe such a place, when he gave that name to a hidden valley in the Himalayas in his novel LOST HORIZON.In THE SEARCH FOR SHANGRI-LA acclaimed traveller and writer Charles Allen explores the myth behind the story. He tracks down the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Savage Wars Of Peace

    Soldiers' Voices, 1945-89

    by Charles Allen ...
    Since the Second World War the British Army has been engaged in armed conflicts around the globe in every year except 1968. Some have been full-scale military campaigns, but most have been undeclared wars, fought out in such widely differing theatres as Malaya, Kenya, Cyprus, Brunei, Borneo, Aden, Oman and Northern Ireland.The Savage Wars of Peace is the fighting soldiers' view of these campaigns, ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Tales From the Dark Continent

    Images of British Colonial Africa in the Twentieth Century

    by Charles Allen ...
    Charles Allen captures the vanished world of British Colonial Africa in the recollections of the pioneering men and women who lived and worked there. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Seagrass Maggie

    The Seagrass Maggie Trilogy, #1

    by Charles Allen ...
    Series Book 1 - The Seagrass Maggie Trilogy
    From the darkness of the Feast Pit, an ancient vampiric evil crawls out of the ocean caves of the Atlantic Way. They cast a village in a dark mist, trapping them in a nightmare without end, and force them to continue ancient rituals that have long ago been forgotten. There they wait.As an infant, Maggie was abducted by the fae and a changeling was left in her place. For eighteen long years, she ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Soldier Sahibs

    by Charles Allen ...
    This text retells the story of a brotherhood of young men who together laid claim to one of the most notorious frontiers in the world: India's north-west frontier, which in the late 1990s forms the volatile boundary between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Known collectively as Henry Lawrence's Young Men, each had distinguished himself in the East India Company's wars in the Punjab in the 1840s before ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Plain Tales From The Raj

    Images of British India in the 20th Century

    by Charles Allen ...
    The Raj was, for two hundred years, the jewel in the British imperial crown. Although founded on military expansionism and undoubted exploitation, it developed over the centuries into what has been called 'benign autocracy' - the government of many by few, with the active collaboration of most Indians in recognition of a desire for the advancement of their country.Charles Allen's classic oral ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • A Mountain In Tibet

    The Search for Mount Kailas and the Sources of the Great Rivers of Asia

    by Charles Allen ...
    Throughout the East there runs a legend of a great mountain at the centre of the world, where four rivers have their source. Charles Allen traces this legend to Western Tibet where there stands Kailas, worshipped by Hindus and Buddhists alike as the home of their gods and the navel of the world. Close by are the sources of four mighty rivers: the sacred Ganges, the Indus, the Sutlej and Tsangpo ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Tales From The South China Seas

    Images of the British in South East Asia in the Twentieth Century

    by Charles Allen ...
    This work chronicles the adventures of the last generation of British men and women who went East to seek their fortunes. Drawn into the colonial territories scattered around the South China Sea, they found themselves in an exotic, intoxicating world. It was a land of rickshaws and shanghai jars, sampans and Straits Steamers, set against a background of palm-fringed beaches and tropical rain ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD