Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River, (Paperback)

from adamvasco

Every now and then a refreshingly different travel or history or combination of both comes along and this is it. Informative, well written and timely; Alice Albina's debut describing her journey from mouth to source along the mighty Indus explaining the various histories of its hinterlands in som...

from quirkymon

Alice Albinia's book is one of the best book in the travel literature genre that I've read in recent times. Wanderlust, astonishing sense of adventure, and a never-ending hunger to gather little known facts and the history of every place she visits is what makes her such a brilliant travel writer...

from adamvasco

Every now and then a refreshingly different travel or history or combination of both comes along and this is it. Informative, well written and timely; Alice Albina's debut describing her journey from mouth to source along the mighty Indus explaining the various histories of its hinterlands in som...

from THE_ROCK

A wonderfully gifted writer. I was amazed at the sheer depth of preception from Alice Albinia. Its true the narritave is about mainly about the indus itself but the book reveals so much more about the land, history, society, economy, its people customs and the intricate relationship which weaves ...

from mariamreza

This is a remarkable book in so many ways. The first thing that I loved was the structure; as Albinia moves geographically up the Indus valley, she goes back in history. Hence the first chapter describes Karachi and deals with Partition in 1947, and the last chapter is set in Tibet at the source ...