Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River

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  • Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River Book Detail

  • Author : Alice Albinia
  • Release Date : 2010-04-05
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 368
  • ISBN 13 : 9780393063226
  • File Size : 8,8 MB
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Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River by Alice Albinia PDF Summary

Book Description: “Alice Albinia is the most extraordinary traveler of her generation. . . . A journey of astonishing confidence and courage.”—Rory Stewart 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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Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River

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“Alice Albinia is the most extraordinary traveler of her generation. . . . A journey of astonishing confidence and courage.”—Rory Stewart One of the large

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Albinia follows the Indus River in Asia, one of the largest rivers in the world, through 2,000 miles of geography and back to a time 5,000 years ago when a stri

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