{"product_id":"the-missionary-and-the-maharajas-9781350345812","title":"The Missionary and the Maharajas","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHugh Tyndale-Biscoe\u003c\/b\u003e, grandson of Cecil Tyndale-Biscoe, was born in Kashmir, India, where he attended the school run by his parents. A marsupial biologist best known for his book \u003ci\u003eLife of Marsupials\u003c\/i\u003e, he served as Chief Research Scientist at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisations Division of Wildlife Research and lectured at the Australian National University in Canberra. In 2018 he was made a member of the Order of Australia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book represents personal history at its best ... [and] offers a clarion call and personal testimony that is challenging. * Anglican and Episcopal History *\u003cbr\u003eThis is a marvellous book written by a gifted and entertaining author, grandson of the remarkable Canon Cecil Biscoe, covering a significant period of history where the subject’s involvement in Kashmir resonates to this day, not just in fascinating biographical material, but also in the Kashmiri conflict and geopolitical  dilemmas expressed as recently as a few weeks ago when Pakistan downed an Indian jet fighter over the disputed border, a legacy of the powerful, eccentric, and culturally embedded British India vividly evoked in Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe’s writing. * Roger MacDonald, author of When Colts Ran (2010), The Ballad of Desmond Kale (2006), and Mr Darwin’s Shooter (1998) *\u003cbr\u003eAn absorbing, balanced and informative record of unrelenting imperial proselytism, personal moral certitude and ineradicable, uncompromising courage in an outpost of the British Empire. * Professor J.A. Mangan, author of The Games Ethic and Imperialism *\u003cbr\u003eThis is an engaging narrative of missionary work in Kashmir, based on diaries, correspondence and school records. The text is crammed with much fascinating incidental detail. * Francis Robinson, Professor of the History of South Asia, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK *","brand":"Bloomsbury USA 3pl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53187300524375,"sku":"9781350345812","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-missionary-and-the-maharajas-9781350345812","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}