Esta saga épica narra el ascenso del Imperio Británico durante un siglo crucial, desde el acceso de la Reina Victoria hasta su Jubileo de Diamante. Explora el vasto alcance de la influencia imperial a través de los continentes, detallando desde puestos de avanzada coloniales y jardines exóticos hasta bulliciosos centros comerciales. La serie captura la aventura, la ambición y las consecuencias de largo alcance de esta expansión global. Es una mirada panorámica a la formación del mundo moderno.
Tells the story of the rise of the British Empire, from the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837 to her Diamond Jubilee in 1897. The author evokes every aspect of the 'great adventure', ranging from ships and botanical gardens to hill stations and sugar plantations, as she traces the impact of empire on places as diverse as Sierra Leone and Fiji.
This centerpiece of the trilogy captures the British at the height of their vigor and self-satisfaction, imposing their traditions and tastes, their idealists and rascals, on diverse peoples of the world.
Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat traces the momentous decline and fall of the greatest of empires - from Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee to the death of Winston Churchill in 1965.