In an Antique Land

Informationen zum Autor Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta in 1956 and is one of India's best-known writers. His books include The Circle of Reason , The Shadow Lines , In an Antique Land , Dancing in Cambodia , The Calcutta Chromosome , The Glass Palace , Incendiary Circumstances , The Hungry Tide and Sea of Poppies, amongst others. Klappentext In an Antique Land is a subversive history in the guise of a traveller's tale. When the author stumbles across a slave narrative in the margins of an ancient text, his curiosity is piqued. What follows is a ten year search, which brings author and slave together across 800 hundred years of colonial history. Bursting with anecdote and exuberant detail, it offers a magical, intimate biography of the private life of a country, Egypt, from the Crusades to Operation Desert Storm. Zusammenfassung From the best-selling author of The Glass Palace and Sea of Poppies! an extraordinary work of non-fiction that combines ancient history with a modern-day travelogue.

Product details

• Authors: Amitav Ghosh, Ghosh Amitav
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.01.2012
• EAN: 9781847081940
• ISBN: 978-1-84708-194-0
• No. of pages: 393
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > Middle East; Indische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.), TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Egypt, India, Literary essays