Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River - Brossura

Albinia, Alice

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0393338606 ISBN 13: 9780393338607

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2010

Riassunto

Describes the turbulent history of the Indus River, one of the largest in the world, presenting a historical narrative of the people and civilizations that have lived along its banks in Tibet, India and Pakistan through time. Original.

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One of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains and flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. It has been worshipped as a god, used as a tool of imperial expansion, and today is the cement of Pakistan s fractious union. Alice Albinia follows the river upstream, through two thousand miles of geography and back to a time five thousand years ago when a string of sophisticated cities grew on its banks. This turbulent history, entwined with a superlative travel narrative (The Guardian) leads us from the ruins of elaborate metropolises, to the bitter divisions of today. Like Rory Stewart s The Places In Between, Empires of the Indus is an engrossing personal journey and a deeply moving portrait of a river and its people.

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• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0393338606
• ISBN 13: 9780393338607
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 366