'Orientalist Jones': Sir William Jones, Poet, Lawyer, and Linguist, 1746-1794

by Michael J . Franklin (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2011

  $99.53

  A major new critical biography of Sir William Jones (1746-94), the foremost Orientalist of his generation and one of the greatest intellectual navigators of all time, whose Sanskrit researches did more than any other writer to destroy Eurocentric prejudice, reshaping Western perceptions of India and the Orient.