January 2012 Travel Book of the Month.
From the best-selling author of The Glass Palace and Sea of Poppies, an extraordinary work of non-fiction that combines ancient history with a modern-day travelogue.
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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.
In An Antique Land features in the following genres: Travel, Biographies & Autobiographies, Books of the Month, eBooks of the Month, Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Recommendations
In An Antique Land is available in Paperback, Ebook
In An Antique Land was written by Amitav Ghosh and published by Granta Books
In An Antique Land has 393 pages
