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Once upon a time an Indian writer name Amitav Ghosh set out to find an Indian slave, name unknown, who some seven hundred years before had traveled to the Middle East. The journey took him to a small village in Egypt, where medieval customs coexist with twentieth-century desires and discontents. But even as Ghosh sought to re-create the life of his Indian predecessor, he found himself immersed in those of his modern Egyptian neighbors. Combining shrewd observations with painstaking historical research, Ghosh serves up skeptics and holy men, merchants and sorcerers. Some of these figures are real, some only imagined, but all emerge as vividly as the characters in a great novel. In an Antique Land is an inspired work that transcends genres as deftly as it does eras, weaving an entrancing and intoxicating spell.Product Identifiers
PublisherBrilliance Publishing, Inc.
ISBN-101441835024
ISBN-139781441835024
eBay Product ID (ePID)84364935
Product Key Features
Book TitleIn an Antique Land : History in the Guise of a Traveler's Tale
TopicGeneral
Publication Year2010
LanguageEnglish
GenreTravel, History
AuthorAmitav Ghosh
Dimensions
Item Height0.5in
Item Length6.8in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition20
Number of Volumes1 Vol.
Dewey Decimal962/.02/0922
Edition DescriptionUnabridged Edition