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Daughter Of Destiny
by Benazir Bhutto
Daughter of Destiny, the autobiography of Benazir Bhutto, is a historical document of uncommon passion and courage, the dramatic story of a brilliant, beautiful woman whose life was, up to her tragic assassination in 2007, inexorably tied to her nation's tumultuous history. Bhutto writes of growing up in a family of legendary wealth and near-mythic status, a family whose rich heritage survives in tales still passed from generation to generation. She describes her journey from this protected world onto...
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Indian Summer. A Mem-sahib in India and Sind
by Swayne-Thomas, April
London: New English Library. 1981. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Colour and black & white illustrations by the author. 176 pages. For eight years during and after the Second World War, India was April Swayne-Thomas' second home. This book is her recollections [with drawings] of those times. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st...
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NZ$19.83
British India
by TALLIS, John
London: John Tallis & Company, 1860. unbound. Rapkin, J.. Map. Steel engraving with outline hand color. Page measures 13 7/8" x 10 5/8"<br/> <br/> Lovely map of India in the mid-19th century. Features four vignettes showing the Beloochee's; Lahore; Cootub Minar, Delhi (a world heritage site); and Indian Procession in the lower left with elephants. Hand colored to show proposed railroads connecting Bombay, Calcutta, and Delhi. Regions are also colored, representing the...
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NZ$342.92
Northern India including the Presidency of Calcutta
by TALLIS, John
London: Tallis, John, 1851. unbound. Rapkin, J.. Map. Steel engraving with original hand outline. Image measures 9 3/4" x 13"<br/> <br/> Beautiful map of Northern India from the Gulf of Cambay and Bay of Bengal to the Great Indian Desert and Nepal. Vignettes include the seal of the East India Company, "Car of Juggernaut", "The British Presidency, Hyderabad", a scene of a tiger hunt, ruins in Old Delhi and two "Hindoos". A color coded key shows British...
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Passage to Peshawar : Pakistan, between the Hindu Kush and the Arabian Sea
by Reeves, Richard (1936-)
New York : Simon And Schuster, 1984. First Edition. Hardback. Photo of author and publishers promotional slip loosely inserted. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 223 pages; Description: 223 p. : map ; 23 cm. Subjects: Reeves, Richard (1936-) --Pakistan --Politics and Government--(1971-1988) --Description and travel. Notes: Includes index. Publisher's promotional material loosely inserted.
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NZ$30.76
Broken Bangles
by Deen, Hanifa
Sydney: Anchor. 1998. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. xii, 324 pages. The author's travels through Pakistan and Bangadesh meeting women to discover the many faces of Muslim women today. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Softcover.
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NZ$16.52
Irrigation projects
Karachi: Pakistan Publications, 1956. 24p., wraps. OCLC lists two copies. Pakistan Moves Forward. Illustrated booklet promoting Pakistan's construction of infrastructure such as pumping stations and tube-wells.
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NZ$17.15
Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government, No. XVII. - New Series. Part II. Memoirs on Shikarpoor; the Syuds of Roree and Bukkur; The Khyrpoor State ...
by [Burton, Richard Francis, 1821-1890]
Bombay: Printed for the Government at the Bombay Education Society's Press, 1855. Hardcover. Fine. xviii, [2], [403]-774, 78p. Attractive recent quarterbinding. 26cm. This exceedingly uncommon volume contains two early papers by Burton which he originally submitted for publication in 1847 and 1848 (and which were first published in a British Parliamentary Paper in 1854): (1) "Brief Notes Relative to the Division of Time, and Articles of Cultivation in Sind; to which Are Appended Remarks on the Modes of...
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NZ$2,571.90
Passage to Peshawar: Pakistan: Between the Hindu Kush and the Arabian Sea
by Reeves, Richard
Paperback. Good.
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NZ$4.53
Jenebhaya Bamgabandhu
by Matin, Abdul
London: Radical Asia Publications, 1984. 128 pages, [6] leaves of plates, very good paperback, text in Bengali. On Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
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NZ$34.29
LORDS OF THE KHYBER The Story of the North-West Frontier
by Singer, André
Faber & Faber. Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Inside one inch of DJ waterstained, top and bottom. Outside edges foxed. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 234 pages .
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NZ$17.15
Escape from Oblivion The Story of a Pakistani Prisoner of War in India
by Sehgal, Ikram
Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2012. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Author's presentation inscription to title page. Fold-out map. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 138 pages. The author became a POW in April 1971 while serving in the former East Pakistan [Bangladesh] and was sent to the Panagarh POW camp in India. He became the first...
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NZ$55.08
Chanhu-daro Excavations 1935-36
by Mackay, Ernest J. H
New Haven: American Oriental Society, 1943. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. frontis, 96 plates, index, xv, 338p. Green cloth. 31cm. Covers scuffed. No Jacket. Report of archeological work on an Indus Valley site in what is now Pakistan.
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NZ$428.65
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Two Company Group Photographs in Karachi and Burma. [our title]
by [Photographs]
1928. Good. Company not identified. Includes: (1) "Karachi Office Force, Retirement of Mr. Duncan, June 1, 1928". (About 80 people including 6 wives and 7 children, in an outdoor setting, with trees in the background) Approx. 26.5 x 35.5cm. Two vertical creases. Minor foxing and chipping. Mounted on a piece of light-colored card stock, approx. 30 x 45cm.; and (2) Untitled and undated group of 26 men, seated on steps and boxes in front of a large corrugated metal building. A big "1" and a "No Smoking"...
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NZ$171.46
Daughter of Destiny: An Autobiography
by Bhutto, Benazir
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x6x1. Signed by author. First edition. Signed without inscription by Bhutto on front endpaper. Jacket and pages lightly toned. 1989 Hard Cover. 411, [1] pp. A memoir by the first Muslim woman elected to lead a democratic government. She was the 11th and 13th prime minister of Pakistan during the '80s and '90s, and was assassinated in 2007. The 2014 Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai lists Bhutto as an...
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NZ$557.24
Expedição Italiana ao Karakorum K-2
by Marussi, Antonio
Lisbon: Sociedade de Geographia de Lisboa, 1956. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A very good copy.. 253-268 pp. Illus. with 8 b/w photos. Sm. 4to. Separate Bulletin from Sociedade de Geographia de Lisboa, July-Sept. 1956. History of the explorations of the Karakorum and the Italian expedition of 1954-55. In Portuguese with summary in English. Antonio Marussi, Geophycist, was one of the expedition members. Not in Neate.
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NZ$25.72
The World's Great Railway Journeys travelling by locomotive through history and around the world.
by Wade-Matthews, Max
London: Select Editions. 2001. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. 256 pages. Contains accounts of more than 90 of the world's most legendary train journeys. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Reprint. Softcover.
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NZ$16.52
Amara dekha rajanitira pancasa bachara আমার দেখা রাজনীতির পঞ্চাশ বছর
by Ahmad, Abdul Mansur
Dhaka: Khosaroja Kitaba Mahala, 2013. Hardcover. 664p. hardcover in dustjacket, very good. Aside from an English title page (giving the title as "Fifty years of politics as I saw it"), text is in Bengali. Memoir by the Bangladeshi politician and journalist.
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NZ$34.29
Women in Pakistan: an economic and social strategy
Washington DC: World Bank, 1989. xxxi, 192 pages, paperback, 8.5x11 inches, neatly ex-library with label on spine.
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NZ$29.15
The Life and Opinions of General Sir Charles James Napier. G. C. B.
by Napier, William Francis Patrick
London: John Murray, 1857. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. 4 vols. frontis (in each volume), folding map, vii, 482, [plus 2p. adverts.], v, 458, [plus 2p. adverts.], viii, 482, vii, 432p. plus [4]p. adverts. Original green cloth. Backstrips show fading and are worn along top. Later owner's name inked on first blank page in each volume. INSCRIBED by Napier to C. W. Randolph (from "the Author") on the title-page of Vol. I. Bookplate of Charles Wilson Randolph in each volume. Much of the book deals with...
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NZ$685.84
Guide to Pakistan
by Ferozsons Limited
Softcover (9,50" x 7.25"). nd Illustrated. 176pp + ads. Crease front cover - still, a Good+ clean, unmarked and tightly bound book about the history and places of interest in Pakistan.
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NZ$13.29
To the Frontier
by Moorehouse, Geoffrey
New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1984. First American Edition. Winner of the Thomas Cook Award for Best Travel Book of 1984. Price clipped jacket has little wear. 285 bright, white pages. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. First American. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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NZ$10.72
