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Jan Morris: Heaven’s Command - An Imperial Progress (unabridged)

Read by Roy McMillan

  • Release Date: 28th Mar 2011
  • Catalogue No: NA0034
  • Label: Naxos AudioBooks
  • Series: Non-Fiction
  • Length: 20 hours 7 minutes

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Jan Morris: Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Unabridged)

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  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London

Jan Morris Introduction

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HEAVEN'S COMMAND: AN IMPERIAL PROGRESS

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In Liverpool, Bristol and Glasgow, entire communities…

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Chapter 2: HIGH AND HOLY WORK

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The refinery had a churchy look, its limestone finely dressed…

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Freetown society was rich and strange. The founders…

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Chapter 3: SWEET LIVES

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It was idealism that changed all this.

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Retief was delighted, and the Boers rode back…

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Chapter 4: ROOTS INTO THEIR SOIL

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Each Thug hunting posse with its attendant apostates ready for…

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Chapter 5: LAWS OF WAR

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Here, the Kabul army ensconced itself, with all its camels and camp…

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Chapter 6: MERCHANT VENTURING

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Yet it inspired amongst its employees a truly romantic sense…

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Chapter 7: WHITE SETTLERS

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So, the little city had been elevated by a number of good Regency…

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Aborigines wandered drunk and dispossessed…

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The first party disembarked upon the shore of what is now called…

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Chapter 8: AN ACT OF GOD

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The more cruelly the peasant was exploited, the more his family…

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Mallow too had its castle, in a park at the end of town…

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Even as the force paraded, news arrived that a body of police…

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Chapter 9: WHAT A FINE MAN

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A commission of some 80 young company men imposed…

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John Lawrence grew into something different.

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Like so many of his contemporaries, Nicholson first saw…

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PART 2 CHAPTER 10: THE GROWING CONVICTION

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And most of all the railways: those supremely British…

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There were mills on the southern shore, and all around them…

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Chapter 11: THE EPIC OF THE RACE

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This pathetic action was to enter the mythology of the Empire…

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Yet on June 23 the most determined rebel assault was beaten off.

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Many of the Indian sepoys now deserted and by July 1858…

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At the end of October word filtered in that a second relieving force…

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Chapter 12: PAN AND MR. GLADSTONE

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The gang plank was thrown ashore and from the cutter…

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Chapter 13: THE IMPERIAL STYLE

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Hill stations were never thought of by the Moghul rulers of India…

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Chapter 14: ILLUSTRIOUS FOR THE NILE

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In February 1858 they together became…

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Chapter 15: GOVERNOR EYRE

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Chapter 16: AIN'T THE PENTATEUCH QUEER

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Explorers such as Speake or Grant saw themselves as God's scouts…

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'But God has given us one little thing…'

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In Cape Town Bishop Robert Gray, the Metropolitan…

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Farcical scenes ensued. Colenzo, returning from London…

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This occasion figures in every Anglo Indian memoir of the period.

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Chapter 17: THE HUMILIATION OF THE METIS

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Red River was the only sizeable settlement in Central Canada.

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Wolseley was to talk about it for the rest of his life…

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Chapter 18 IN THE PACIFIC

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All this made for a rag-bag cosmopolitan society.

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Cakobau was a Christian and knew white men very well.

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Between the two communities lay the islands of The Strait.

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By the end of July, the British had landed a force of Royal Marines…

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PART THREE THE IMPERIAL OBSESSION Chapter 19

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Gladstone's most celebrated tour de force…

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Mr. Gladstone preferred chopping trees down…

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Chapter 20: ASHANTI

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Chapter 21: BY THE SWORD

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It was still essentially an army of Empire, different in kind…

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Socially, The Royal Navy had gone up in the world…

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In 1875 a promising prospect was reported to him.

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Chapter 22: SOUTH OF THE ZAMBEZI

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Such a mission suited his temperament.

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Frere had early reached the decision…

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His little assault force, about 400 strong, climbed the precipitous…

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Chapter 23: THE END OF THE TASMANIANS

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Presently, Robinson himself, having rounded up every last aboriginal…

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Chapter 24: THE REBEL PRINCE

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Through the land league, Parnell ruthlessly exploited…

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But in the same month as the presentation of the Home Rule Bill…

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Some say that O'Shea sued for divorce…

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Chapter 25 THE MARTYR OF EMPIRE

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Garnett Wolseley called Gordon 'God's Friend'…

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Next, Gordon began to hint…

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He wrote his journal in his stifling upstairs bedroom.

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Chapter 26: SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA

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Kruger looked upon Johannesburg as a more fallible Moses might…

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Lugard has not been invited…

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Yet, like an infuriating particle of grit…

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Chapter 27: AN IMPERIAL FULFILMENT

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