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Zusatztext Entertainingly written history . . . ravishingly beautiful photographs. Informationen zum Autor BAMBER GASCOIGNE is perhaps best known as the presenter of the popular British television quiz show University Challenge between 1962 and 1987. He wrote and presented a thirteen-part TV series, The Christians (1977), which led to a bestselling book, and another, Man and Music . Gascoigne was for a number of years a drama critic for the Spectator and the Observer . He won scholarships to Eton and Cambridge and a Harkness Fellowship to Yale. He is the author of a number of books on theatre, art and cultural history, often in partnership with his wife Christina. Several of his books, including A Brief History of the Great Moghuls , contain photographs taken by her. Klappentext The story of the most fascinating period of Indian history, the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, when the country was ruled by the extraordinarily talented dynasty of emperors known to European travellers as 'the Great Moghuls'. Vorwort The story of the most fascinating period of Indian history, the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, when the country was ruled by the extraordinarily talented dynasty of emperors known to European travellers as 'the Great Moghuls'. Zusammenfassung The story of the most fascinating period of Indian history, the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, when the country was ruled by the extraordinarily talented dynasty of emperors known to European travellers as 'the Great Moghuls'.
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BAMBER GASCOIGNE is perhaps best known as the presenter of the popular British television quiz show
University Challenge between 1962 and 1987. He wrote and presented a thirteen-part TV series,
The Christians (1977), which led to a bestselling book, and another,
Man and Music. Gascoigne was for a number of years a drama critic for the
Spectator and the
Observer. He won scholarships to Eton and Cambridge and a Harkness Fellowship to Yale. He is the author of a number of books on theatre, art and cultural history, often in partnership with his wife Christina. Several of his books, including
A Brief History of the Great Moghuls, contain photographs taken by her.
