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The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor
by Zahiruddin Babur Shah • Salman Rushdie (Introduction) • Wheeler M. Thackson (Translator)
- TRAVEL NARRATIVE
- 2002
- PAPER
- 608 PAGES
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As recommended by author Rory Stewart: "The five-hundred-year-old diary of Babur, the first Mughal emperor of India, describes his journey from exile in a small kingdom in Uzbekistan to the conquest of a giant Muslim empire. He is a poet, a general, a statesman, a wine connoisseur, and above all a gardener. He does not attempt to conceal his defeats, his embarrassments, his unrequited loves. His clipped, confident prose reveals both the mentalities and city life of medieval central Asia."
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