Holder Of The World

This is the remarkable story ofHannah Easton a unique woman born in the American colonies in 1670 aperson undreamed of in Puritan society. Inquisitive vital and awake toher own possibilities Hannah travels to Mughal India with her husband andEnglish trader. There she sets her own course translating herselfinto the Salem Bibi the white lover of a Hindu raja.It is also the story of BeighMasters born in New England in the mid-twentieth century an assethunter who stumbles on the scattered record of her distant relative''s lifewhile tracking a legendary diamond. As Beigh pieces together details of Hannah''sjourneys she finds herself drawn into the most intimate and spellbinding fabricof that remote life confirming her belief that with sufficient passionand intelligence we can decontrsuct the barriers of time andgeography....