In an Antique Land
By Amitav Ghosh
$9.00
In an Antique Land is a subversive history in the guise of a traveller’s tale.
Bursting with anecdote and exuberant detail, it offers a mag-ical, intimate biography of the private life of a country, Egypt, from the Crusades to Operation Desert Storm.
Ghosh is an engagingly humble and receptive traveller… a refreshing reversal of the usual power relationship between the observing (European) travel writer and his indigenous subjects, Guardian
‘Ghosh’s book is extraordinary; a travel book that reaches back into the twelfth century as it touches on the dilemmas of our own time.’ Sunday Times
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