by Amitav Ghosh (Author)
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.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 400
Publisher: Granta Books
Published: 05 Jan 2012
ISBN 10: 1847081940
ISBN 13: 9781847081940