7 edition of The pearls of Coromandel found in the catalog.
Published
1996 by St. Martin"s Press in New York .
Written in
Edition Notes
Statement | Keron Bhattacharya. |
Classifications | |
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LC Classifications | PR6052.H36 P43 1996 |
The Physical Object | |
Pagination | 254 p. ; |
Number of Pages | 254 |
ID Numbers | |
Open Library | OL969647M |
ISBN 10 | 0312143893 |
LC Control Number | 96006223 |
OCLC/WorldCa | 34244704 |
“When I look at this screen in the evening, for example,” she continued, “I see doors opening and knights setting off on horseback.” The Coromandel lacquers evoke images of mythical China, Imperial Cathay and the Coromandel Coast of East India - from where these screens departed for Europe and to which gave them their name. They also conjure up Marco Polo’s Book of . The Book of Pearl is a celebration of imagination and the power of storytelling. As it builds each layer of the intricate plot, the book itself becomes part of the magic. It is an absolute must for anyone who has ever loved a fairy tale. —ForeWord ReviewsBrand: Candlewick Press.
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[Keron Bhattacharya] -- In India, after a Hindu woman is raped by a Muslim, she is repudiated by her husband. An idealistic English colonial administrator, David Sugden, takes her in and the two fall in love.
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A moving and refreshingly intelligent story of love across the racial divide in the dying days of the Raj, from first-novelist Bhattacharya, Indian-born but living in Britain. Told by David Sugden, returning to India in the middle of WW II to avenge his father, the tale begins in the s when John Sugden, an Oxford graduate, comes to India to take up a position with the Indian Civil Author: Keron Bhattacharya.
Coromandel. book. Read 10 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Cover by Fred Pfeiffer/5. This big book, about pages is full of history, but not of the beauty of the pearls, not of full color pictures.
If you find 20 pictures in black and white you are lucky. Expensive for what you get inside. May be for someone that only want history but if you want see pearls and compere them, you will not find that in this by: Keron Bhattacharya is the author of The Pearls of Coromandel ( avg rating, 6 ratings, 1 review, published ), Goodbye Calcutta ( avg rating, 0 /5.
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PEARLS OF THE FAITH. PREFACE. a custom of. many. pious Muslims to employ in. their devotions a three-stringed chaplet, each string con-taining thirty-three beads, and each bead. Coromandel is just a 3-minute drive away when you stay at Coromandel Cottages, located in the heart of the Coromandel Peninsula.
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Plants of the coast of Coromandel:selected from drawings and descriptions presented to the hon. court of directors of the East India Company / If you are generating a PDF of a.
Although the Coromandel lacquer screens date from the 17th and 18th centuries, the new jewellery collection also has a distinctive Art Deco feel and lavishly uses mother of pearl along with vibrant greens in the form of Tsavorite garnet, emeralds and tourmaline, plus red spinel and ruby beads offset against black onyx to evoke the screens, which would have used.
The Hauraki Gulf is separated from the Pacific Ocean by the mountainous, bush-cloaked Coromandel Peninsula, fringed with beautiful surf and swimming beaches and basking in a balmy climate.
Along the west coast, cliffs and steep hills drop sharply to the sea, leaving only a narrow coastal strip shaded by pohutukawa trees that erupt in a blaze of red from mid-November to.
History of the Discovery and Appreciation of Pearls - the Organic Gem Perfected by Nature - Page 5 Open FREE Unlimited Store Join Our Newsletter History of the Gulf of Mannar pearl fishery on the Indian side of the Gulf from 7th-century A.D.
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If you only make it to this region once in your life, you won't forget it easily, and if you get the chance, you can guarantee you will come back to see : Sameer Khanal. It appears that the discovery and appreciation of pearls went hand-in-hand with the development of ancient human civilizations.
The oldest pearls identified in the Persian Gulf region, a single pierced-pearl and mother-of-pearl artifacts comes from As-Sabiyah, Kuwait, dating back to the late stone age, 6, B.C.E. (7, B.P.).
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Coromandel wood was sourced from India and South East Asia and was an incredibly dense, close-grained wood. Visually a more vibrant and figured (patterned) variety from the Ebony family, the actual species of Coromandel became virtually extinct by the beginning of the 20th century.
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But it is incense and smoke wrapped up in powder, pearls, lace and cashmere, not in red-silk tuxedo held half-open and revealingly with one, long, taloned red-laquered finger nail.
No, that is not Coromandel. In its middle and final stages, Coromandel may be better suited to Tolstoy’s tragic heroine, Anna Karenina, in the novel by the same name.