King Solomon's Carpet Condition:Very Good revealing the essence of India

revealing the essence of India and of human experience

These new versions show the adventures at their most lucid and engaging yet

Louis Pichon’s two-month journey from Hanoi to southern Yunnan in spring 1892

and more than 250 previously unpublished personal family photographs

as well as Arendt’s postscript directly addressing the controversy that arose over her account

King Solomon's Carpet Condition:Very Good revealing the essence of IndiaKing Solomon's Carpet is a prize winning crime classic from bestselling author Barbara VineWinner of the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger AwardJarvis Stringer lives in a crumbling schoolhouse overlooking a tube line, compiling his obsessive, secret history of London's Underground. His presence and his strange house draw a band of misfits into his orbit: young Alice, who has run away from her husband and baby; Tom, the busker who rescues her;