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Allen Lane is part of the Penguin Random House group of companies whose addresses can be found at global.penguinrandomhouse.com
First published 2017
Copyright Norman Davies, 2017
The moral right of the author has been asserted
Cover image: Calypsos Island, Departure of Ulysses (detail), 184849, by Samuel Palmer / Whitworth Art Gallery, The University of Manchester / Bridgeman Images
ISBN: 978-1-846-14832-3
To
JOHN MARTIN
and
IAN LINDSEY
Who conferred to save the author
and thereby saved the book
. Goethe in the Roman Campagna, by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein (1787) (Martin Kraft / Stdelsche Kunstinstitut / Wikimedia Commons).
. Miniature of Dante and Virgil meeting Ulysses, from a fourteenth-century Venetian illuminated manuscript (De Agostini / A. Dagli Orti / Bridgeman).
. King Mark depicted in a thirteenth-century German miniature (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek / De Agostini / Bridgeman).
. Tristan Stone, Menabilly (Kevin Britland / Alamy).
. Cornish chough (F. O. Morris / Wikimedia Commons).
. Bishop Sir Jonathan Trelawny (c. 1688), by Sir Godfrey Kneller (Royal Cornwall Museum / Bridgeman).
. Daphne du Maurier (AKG / Ullstein).
. Dolly Pentreath (c. 1775), the last speaker of Cornish (Wellcome Library).
. Baccu (1683), by Engelbert Kaempfer (Johann Baptist Homann / Wikimedia Commons).
. Flame Towers, Baku (Steven Liveoak / Alamy).
. President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan (AKG / Universal / Tass).
. The Execution of the Twenty-Six Commissars (1925) by Isaac Brodsky (AKG).
. The Dunsterforce in Baku, 1918 ( Imperial War Museum).
. Wilfred Thesiger (Pitt Rivers Museum / Bridgeman).
. Abu Dhabi, 1948 (Pitt Rivers Museum / Bridgeman).
. Abu Dhabi Corniche, 2012 (Norman Davies).
. Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, Abu Dhabi (Norman Davies).
. Dubai (Maggie Steber / National Geographic / Bridgeman).
. Gold bullion machine, Dubai (LOOK Die Bildagentur der Fotografen GmbH / Alamy).
. Laxminarayan Temple, Delhi (David Henley / Bridgeman).
. Jama Masjid, Delhi (Gerard Degeorge / AKG).
. Lotus Temple, Delhi (Arian Zwegers / Wikimedia Commons).
. King George V and Queen Mary at the Red Fort, Delhi, 1913 (IAM / AKG).
. Group of untouchables, c. 1890 (J. T. Vintage / Bridgeman).
. B. R. Ambedkar (Wikimedia Commons).
. Chamba State, 3 pies grey, 1911 (Norman Davies).
. Durbar at Kuala Kangsar, 1897 (Pictures from History / AKG).
. Frank Swettenham (1904), by John Singer Sargent (NPG 4837, National Portrait Gallery / Stefano Baldini / Bridgeman).
. Straits Settlements, 32 cents purple (1867) (Norman Davies).
. Running Amok, from de Molins, Voyage Java 185861, Le Tour du Monde, 10 (1864) (Sammlung Archiv fr Kunst und Geschichte / AKG).
. Malayan Emergency, 1949 (Pictures from History / AKG).
. Abdul Rahman, 1965 (AGIP / Bridgeman).
. Tugu Negara (Uwe Aranas / Wiki Commons).
. Singapore Harbour, 1900 (PVDE / Bridgeman).
. Singapore skyline (Merlion444 / Wikimedia Commons).
. Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles by George Francis Joseph (1817) (NPG 84, National Portrait Gallery).
. Raffles Hotel, Singapore (Elisa.rolle / Wikimedia Commons).
. Surrender of Singapore, 1942 (Ullstein Bild / AKG).
. Map of Europe, woodcut from Sebastian Mnster, Cosmographia (Basel, 1628) (AKG).
. Sixteenth-century Ottoman map of the Maghreb (De Agostini / G. Dagli Orti / AKG).
. Kleeblat Map, from Heinrich Bnting, Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae (1581) (Wikimedia Commons).
. Hasekura Tsunenaga (1615) (Pictures from History / AKG).
. Alexander Blok (1921) (AKG).
. Burke and Wills expedition (Universal History Archive / UIG / Bridgeman).
. The Dutch in Mauritius (1598), from Johann Theodor de Bry, Variorum Navigationis (1601) (Bibliotheque National / Archives Charmet / Bridgeman).
. Saftleven dodo (Boijmans Museum / Wikimedia Commons).
. Slaves carrying a palanquin, by Choubardin de Freycinet, Voyage Autour du Monde sur les Corvettes de LUranie 181720 (1825) (Bridgeman).
. Bertrand-Franois Mah (Musee des Arts dAfrique et dOceanie / Bridgeman).
. Hindus at prayer, Mauritius (AKG).
. Stamps from the Bordeaux Cover (J. O. Barnard / Wikimedia Commons).
. Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam (Keystone Pictures / Alamy).
. Cradle Mountain, Tasmania (Bjrn Christian Trrissen / Wikimedia Commons).
. Governor Daveys Proclamation (1830), Van Diemens Land (Pictures from History / Bridgeman).
. Port Arthur, Tasmania (Andrew Braithwaite / Wikimedia Commons).
. Abel Janszoon Tasman (Bridgeman).
. Native of Van Diemens Land (1777), by John Webber (De Agostini / Bridgeman).
. Maori war canoe (1770), by Sidney Parkinson (De Agostini / AKG).
. Maori man (1769), by Parkinson (World History Archive /AKG).
. Tawhiao I (World History Archive /AKG).
. The Emigrants (1844), by William Allsworth (Museum of New Zealand / Bridgeman).
. The New Zealand Wars, by Orlando Norie (Erich Lessing / AKG).
. Charles de Brosses (Wikimedia Commons).
. Tahitian breadfruit, from James Cook, Account of a Voyage Round the World in the Years 176871 (1773) (Granger / Bridgeman).
. Louis de Bougainville lands at Tahiti (Granger / Bridgeman).
. Oaitepeha Bay (c. 1775), Tahiti, by William Hodges (Pictures from History / AKG).
. Tahitian Dance (c. 1775), after Webber (Sammlung Archiv fr Kunst und Geschichte / AKG).
. Pmare IV, by Paul-Emile Mio (Alamy).
. tablissements de lOcanie, 1 cent grey (1934) (Norman Davies).
. Comanche Feats of Horsemanship (18345), by George Caitlin (Smithsonian / Bridgeman).
. Texas broadside, 1836 (Granger / Bridgeman).
. Quanah Parker (Peter Newark Western Americana / Bridgeman).
. Antonio Lpez de Santa Anna, c. 1849 (Granger / Bridgeman).
. Samuel Houston (Ken Welsh / Bridgeman).
. Oil gusher at Port Arthur, Texas, 1901 (World History Archive / Bridgeman).
. The Landing in 1608 at Ver Planck Point (1842), by Robert Walter Weir (Christies / Bridgeman).
. Fort of New Amsterdam, 1614 (AKG).
. The Toppling of King George IIIs Gilded Statue, by John C. McRae (Granger / Bridgeman).
. Lappawinsoe, lithograph after painting by Gustavus Hesselius, 1838 (J. T. Vintage / Bridgeman).
. Israel Zangwill (Ken Welsh / Bridgeman).
. Porto do Cruz, Madeira (Franck Guiziou / Hemispicture / Getty).
. Combination Room, Peterhouse College, Cambridge (Look and Learn / Bridgeman).
. Diogo Co (Prisma / AKG).
. Winston Churchill, Camara do Lobos, Madeira, 1953 (Ullstein Bild / Getty).
. Senhora do Monte, Madeira (Barry Caruth / Wikimedia Commons).
. Charles I and Zita, Madeira, 1921 (SZ Photo / Bridgeman).
. The Flying Dutchman, KLM poster, 1938 (DaTo Images / Bridgeman).
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