In an Antique Land
$43.95
- Paperback
- Release Date
13 August 2026
Summary
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.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781803513041 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1803513047 |
| Author: | Amitav Ghosh |
| Publisher: | Granta Books |
| Imprint: | Granta Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Release Date: | 13 August 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm |
| Series: | Best of Granta |
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Ghosh’s book is extraordinary; a travel book that reaches back into the twelth century as it touches on the dilemmas of our own time. * Sunday Times *Ghosh is an engagingly humble and receptive traveller… a refreshing reversal of the usual power relationship between the observing (European) travel writer and his indigenous subjects. * Guardian *A rich and satisfying journey * The Times *This captivating, extraordinary story offers the general reader a vision of a rapidly disappearing world told with such grace, humility and insight that its appeal is universal – Julie Fisher * Bookmunch *
About The Author
Amitav Ghosh
Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta in 1956 and is one of India’s best-known writers. His books include The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, In an Antique Land, Dancing in Cambodia, The Calcutta Chromosome, The Glass Palace, Incendiary Circumstances, The Hungry Tide, and Sea of Poppies, amongst others.
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