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William Dalrymple, The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company

William Dalrymple, The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company Bloomsbury, 2019, 522 pp., ISBN: 9781408864388, p/bk, AUS$26.99 Highly-regarded historian William Dalrymple's The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company is a fabulous achievement. There are two epigraphs upfront.…

Trim the cartographers cat

Trim, the Cartographer’s Cat: The Ship’s Cat Who Helped Matthew Flinders Map Australia

Trim, the Cartographer’s Cat: The Ship’s Cat Who Helped Matthew Flinders Map Australia by Matthew Flinders, Philippa Sandall and Gillian Dooley, with illustrations by Ad Long and a foreword by Julian Stockwin Adlard Coles (Bloomsbury), 2019, 128 pp., ISBN: 9781472967206, h/bk, AUS$22.49 Trim,…