The quest to find Alexander’s lost city

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🗓️ 15 May 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Classicist Edmund Richardson tells the astonishing story of a British deserter from the East India Company who embarked on a quest to find a lost city of Alexander the Great. (Ad) Edmund Richardson is the author of Alexandria: The Quest for the Lost City (Bloomsbury, 2021) Buy it now on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Alexandria-Quest-Dr-Edmund-Richardson/dp/1526603780/?tag=bbchistory045-21&ascsubtag=historyextra-social-hexpod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:46.3	I'm Ellie Cawthorthorne.
0:56.3	In 1827, a British soldier deserted from the East India Company and embarked on a quest to find one of the lost cities of Alexander the Great.
1:06.6	His name was Charles Masson and his astonishing life story has now been chronicled in a new book
1:12.6	by the classicist and BBC New Generation thinker, Edmund Richardson.
1:17.6	In today's episode, Edmund explores Masson's archaeological adventures in India and Afghanistan
1:23.5	during an era of colonial intrigue and bloodshed.
1:29.8	Putting the questions to him was BBC History Magazine editor Rob Atar. Your book covers Charles Masson's quest for Alexandria, but I'd
1:36.6	actually like to begin by asking about your own quest in writing this book. So what first
1:41.6	drew you to Masson's story and how do you go about piecing it together?
1:45.2	Charles Masson perhaps appropriately is someone I encountered pretty much by accident.
1:50.4	He's someone pretty much no one has ever heard of despite the things he ended up getting up to
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