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The Great Hedge of India: The Search for the Living Barrier that Divided a People
Roy Moxham
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| #1109483 in Books | Carroll n Graf | 2002-03-12 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.99 x.55 x5.00l, | File type: PDF | 256 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| This is a wonderful book!|By Graybeard|This is the true story of British writer Roy Moxham's quest to find an enormous 800-mile hedge in India that piqued his curiosity when he saw it mentioned in a footnote in a book that he picked up in a used bookshop in London. One would think -- as did Moxham -- that such a colossal object would be a cinch to find. Incredibly, however, Mox|From Library Journal|The Indian equivalent of the Great Wall, the Customs Hedge, which is rarely mentioned in history books, was grown to prevent the smuggling of salt in response to the East India Company's oppressive Salt Tax. Composed of thorny trees and shru
"Remarkable” and “astonishing,” says Jan Morris of Roy Moxham’s account of his search for “one of the least-known wonders of Queen Victoria’s India,” and John Keay finds it “a compelling read, simply told, and simply wonderful.” An unquestionably fascinating tale, as well as a travel book and historical detective story, The Great Hedge of India begins in a secondhand bookshop on London’s Charing Cross Road....
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