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  Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River (Paperback) By (author) Alice Albinia

  

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  Short Description for Empires of the IndusAlbinia 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 string of sophisticated cities grew on its banks. Illustrations.
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  • Publisher: WW Norton & Co
  • Published: 14 April 2010
  • Format: Paperback 366 pages
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  • Categories: Asian History | Guidebooks | Travel Writing
  • ISBN 13: 9780393338607 ISBN 10: 0393338606
  • Sales rank: 168,292

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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.