''Not all lost cities are real, but this one was.''The extraordinary story of Alexander the Great''s lost city, and a quest to unravel one of the most captivating mysteries in ancient history.-Superb - impeccably researched, but with the pace and deftly woven plot complexity of a John le Carr-ovel ... utterly brilliant- William Dalrymple, Guardian-[An] exceptional biography ... This is a jewel of a book- Sunday Times-A brilliant and evocative biography, written with consummate scholarship, great style and wit- Daily Telegraph______For centuries the city of Alexandria Beneath the Mountains was a meeting point of East and West. Then it vanished. In 1833 it was discovered in Afghanistan by the unlikeliest person imaginable: Charles Masson, an ordinary working-class boy from London turned deserter, pilgrim, doctor, archaeologist and highly respected scholar.On the way into one of history-s mos
