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In an Antique Land

By Amitav Ghosh

Book information

Publisher
Vintage Books
Year
1993
ISBN
0679727833, 9780679727835
LCC
DT56.2 .G48 1994
Google Books ID
MUOz-GfRunwC
Open Library ID
OL1432048M
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1993093 bytes)
Pages
668\0
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

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.

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