tion>Flora Annie Webster Steel
King-Errant
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066140687
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PREFACE
This is not a novel, neither is it a history. It is the life-story of a man, taken from his own memoirs.
"Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor, gentleman, apothecary, ploughboy, thief."
So runs the jingle.
The hero of this book might have claimed as many personalities in himself, for Zahir-ud-din Mahomed commonly called Babar, Emperor of India, the first of the dynasty which we mis-name the Great Moghuls, was at one and the same time poet, painter, soldier, athlete, gentleman, musician, beggar and King.
He lived the most adventurous life a man ever lived, in the end of the fifteenth, the beginning of the sixteenth centuries; and he kept a record of it.
On this record I have worked. Reading between the lines often, at times supplying details that must have occurred, doing
