The Far Pavilions

by M. M. Kaye

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The Far Pavilions (1984 ∙ IMDb)

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BBC's Big Read (Best loved novel, 2003, No 168)

New York Times bestseller (Fiction, 1978)

Guardian 1000 (Love)

Epigraph

We are the Pilgrims, Master: We shall go

Always a little further. It may be
Beyond that last blue mountain barred with snow
Across that angry or that glimmering sea,
White on a throne, or guarded in a cave
There lives a prophet who can understand
Why men are born . . .
James Elroy Flecker

T'is not too late to seek a newer world.
Tennyson

Dedication

To all those Officers and Men
of different races and creeds who,
since 1846, have served with such pride and devotion
in
THE CORPS OF GUIDES
among them
Lieutenant Walter Hamilton V.C.,
my husband Major General Goff Hamilton CD, CBE, DSO,
and his father Colonel Bill Hamilton OBE, DL, JP.

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Ashton Hilary Akbar Pelham-Martyn was born in a camp near the crest of a pass in the Himalayas, and subsequently christened in a patent canvas bucket.

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