About this book
This is the story of the lives and lusts, ambitions and avarices, triumphs and defeats of the Moghuls, and five generations of the English family who witnessed and participated in it all. In 1524 Sir Thomas Blunt and his young cousin reach Goa in search of the fabled kingdom of Prester John. Instead, they discover an exotic and capricious land whose wealth far exceeds their wildest dreams, and become involved with the ruling Moghuls. They join the armies of a descendant of Genghis Khan and help to conquer the cities of Delhi and Agra.
Themes & subjects
1990'sHistorical Fiction
First published 1991Characters & people
Setting
Goa (India)Delhi (India)Agra (India)1524
About the author
Alan Savage
7 December 1930
Christopher Robin Nicole was born on 7 December 1930 in Georgetown, Guyana, and was raised in the Caribbean. His education included: the Queen's College in Guyana; the Harrison College in Barbados; and was fellow by the Canadians Bankers Association. A romantic and passionate of history, he has been published since 1957 as Christopher Nicole, and continues to write into the 21st century with no intention of retiring. His historical fiction sagas set in tumultuous periods of war have become in best-sellers, and he has won international acclaim for his work under several pseudonyms, some of there female, that includes: Peter Grange, Andrew York, Robin Cade, Mark Logan, Christina Nicholson, …
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