The great hedge of India

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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. There Roy Moxham buys the memoir of a nineteenth-century British colonial administrative officer, who makes a passing reference to a giant hedge planted by the British across the Indian /5(21).

The Great Hedge is part history, part detective story, part travel book. Above all, it's a great read.―Mail on Sunday Moxham has written a parable at once light-handed and melancholy about the cruelty and folly fo the empire.―Financial Times Moxham has pulled out a jewel.―The Times/5(5).

Roy Moxham is author of The Great Hedge of India (). After thirteen years in Africa, he became first a dealer in African Art, then a book conservator, now in charge of preservation and conservation at the University of London Library/5. The Great Hedge of India Roy Moxham Constable £, pp Buy it at a discount at BOL Spike Milligan in his wildest flights of fancy could not have done better.

To levy a duty on salt, the British established a Customs line across the whole of India which in extended from the Indus to the Mahanadi in Madras. The Great Hedge of India is a book of history and travel. It tells of The great hedge of India book chance discovery, inof a reference to a gigantic mile long hedge that the British had grown across nineteenth-century India.

It describes my efforts to find its remains. There. 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. There Roy Moxham buys the memoir of a nineteenth-century British colonial administrative officer, who makes a passing reference to a giant hedge planted by the.

The Great Hedge of India By Roy Moxham Constable Price: Pounds, Pages: Among the great charms of reading history as a riveting story of the past is that even a footnote can acquire a life of its own.

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. There Roy Moxham buys the memoir of a nineteenth-century British colonial administrative officer, who makes a passing reference to a giant hedge planted by the British across the Indian /5(6).

Roy Moxham is the author of Tea - Addiction Exploitation and Empire (), The Great Hedge of India () and The Freelander (). Born and brought up in Evesham, Worcestershire, he went out to Africa in as a tea planter in Nyasaland, later Malawi/5(38).

When I saw the title of Roy Moxham’s “The Great Hedge of India,” I had the same first thought that he did when he encountered entries about it in books he was conserving: Probably another example of dotty sahibs left out too long in the noonday sun; or, if not that, perhaps one of the numerous attempts by the Government of India to figure out how to modernize the place.

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 4/5(4).

The bestselling account of the author's quest for a lost wonder of the world, The Great Hedge of India. Synopsis This is the story of the author's "ridiculous" quest for a legendary hedge planted across the Indian sub-continent and manned and cared for by 12, men/5(48).

His travels in India, and what he found there, form the basis for this illuminating book. Writer Jan Morris comments, 'At first I thought this remarkable book must be a hoax It tells the story of one of the least-known wonders of Queen Victoria's India - a customs barrier 2, miles long, most of it made of : Roy Moxham.

It had, at long last, reached “its greatest extent and perfection,” wrote Roy Moxham in The Great Hedge of India. It was an impressive monument to British power and doggedness. One British official. The bestselling account of the author's quest for a lost wonder of the world, The Great Hedge of India.

The great hedge of India. [Roy Moxham] -- This is the story of a quest, sparked by the chance purchase in a London bookshop of some memoirs by a nineteenth-century British civil servant.

The memoirs referred in passing to a great hedge that. Running alongside the British Customs Line in northern India, stretching halfway from Calcutta to Bombay, the Hedge was a dense thicket of trees and bushes maintained, at its height, by alm men.

The author devotes much time to the dirty business of his largely unsuccessful search for the : Roy Moxham. Roy Moxham is the author of Tea - Addiction Exploitation and Empire (), The Great Hedge of India () and The Freelander ().

Born and brought up in Evesham, Worcestershire, he went out to Africa in as a tea planter in Nyasaland, later Malawi/5(). The Great Hedge of India: The Search for the Living Barrier That Divided a People.

Moxham, a British library conservator, chanced one day on a book describing a giant hedge, running east to west, 2, miles long and six to 12 feet thick, and guarded by 12, men, in British India in the late 19th century. His travels in India, and what he found there, form the basis for this illuminating book.

Writer Jan Morris comments, 'At first I thought this remarkable book must be a hoax It tells the story of one of the least-known wonders of Queen Victoria's India - a customs barrier 2, miles long, most of it made of : Little, Brown and Company. This is the true story of British writer Roy Moxham's quest to find an enormous 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/5(6). An Englishman named Roy Moxham embarked on a quest recently to find traces of this hedge, and penned down his experience in a book called The Great Hedge of India.

Sadly, he found most of the hedge extinct, except for a small patch near : Aneesh Gokhale.Roy Moxham is author of The Great Hedge of India (). After thirteen years in Africa, he became first a dealer in African Art, then a book conservator, now in charge of preservation and conservation at the University of London Library/5.