In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler's Tale by Amitav Ghosh

In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler's Tale

Amitav Ghosh

400 pages first pub 1993 (editions)

nonfiction history travel challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Once upon a time, an Indian writer named Amitav Ghosh set out as 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 w...

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