Published by Ravi Dayal & Permanent Black, New Delhi, 2000
ISBN 10: 8175300418 ISBN 13: 9788175300415
Seller: Books of the World, Arlington, VA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Indian Paperback Edition. Ravi Dayal & Permanent Black, February 2000. First Indian Paperback Edition (stated); third printing, 2002. Very Good. Unmarked. Pages lightly tanned. Spine straight and tight with a light creased. Dog-ear crease to front cover. Sticker from Giggles Bookshop, Madras to rear cover. 256 pages. A medical thriller, a Victorian ghost story, a scientific quest--this novel ranges back and forth in time, dramatizing the adventures of an international scientist.
Published by Permanent Black / Ravi Dayal, New Delhi, 2000
ISBN 10: 817530040X ISBN 13: 9788175300408
Seller: Books of the World, Arlington, VA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Indian Paperback Edition. Permanent Black / Ravi Dayal, 2000. Trade Paperback. First Indian Paperback Edition. No additional printings listed. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Rear cover has sticker from Giggles Bookshop and three-inch crease at bottom edge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 393 pages. An ethnography in narrative form. Combining shrewd observations with painstaking historical research, Ghosh serves up skeptics and holy men, merchants and sorcerers. Some of these figures are real, some imaginary, but all emerge as vividly as the characters in a great novel. In an Antique Land is an inspired work that transcends genres as deftly as it does eras, weaving an entrancing and intoxicating spell. The book contains two narratives. The first, an anthropological narrative, revolves around two visits made by Ghosh to two villages in the Nile Delta, while he was writing his doctoral dissertation (1980?81) and again a few years later (1988). In the second narrative, presented parallel to the first, Ghosh reconstructs the lives of a 12th-century Jewish merchant and his slaves.
Published by Ravi Dayal / Permanent Black New Delhi 2002, 2002
Seller: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia
21.0 x 14.0cms, 394pp, very good- paperback & cover This book provides details of Egypt's medieval and modern history as well as 'many small indistinguishable and intertwining histories of India & Egypt, Muslims & Hindus & Jews'.