Author: Steve Coll
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780143115199
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of Ghost Wars and The Achilles Trap, a trek across a socially and politically damaged South Asia Bestselling author Steve Coll is one of the preeminent journalists of the twenty-first century. His last two books, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Ghost Wars and New York Times bestseller The Bin Ladens, have been praised for their creative insight and complex yet compelling narratives-and have put him on par with journalists such as the legendary Bob Woodward. Now, for the first time ever, the paperback edition of On the Grand Trunk Road is finally available, revised and updated with new material. Focusing on Coll's journeys in conflict-ridden India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Afghanistan as a bureau chief for The Washington Post, On the Grand Trunk Road reveals a little-seen area of the world where violence, corruption, and greed have had devastating effects on South Asians from all walks of life.
Food of the Grand Trunk Road
Author: Anirudh Arora
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781847739681
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Grand Trunk Road is one of South Asia's oldest and longest roads. For centuries, it has linked the eastern and western regions of the Indian subcontinent, running from Bengal, across north India, into Peshawar in Pakistan up to Afghanistan. Today it
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781847739681
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Grand Trunk Road is one of South Asia's oldest and longest roads. For centuries, it has linked the eastern and western regions of the Indian subcontinent, running from Bengal, across north India, into Peshawar in Pakistan up to Afghanistan. Today it
The Grand Trunk Road
Author: Tim Smith
Publisher: Dewi Lewis Publishing
ISBN: 9781904587996
Category : Grand Trunk Road (India and Pakistan)
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
The Grand Trunk Road is one of the oldest and longest highways in southern Asia. Through oral testimonies, photographs and texts, Tim Smith explores its history and shows how close links between Britain and places along the road continue to this day. The Grand Trunk Road was the main artery for conquest by the British Raj and passes through the ancestral homes of many British Asians. For the first time, the story of the profound impact of the British on this highway and its people is told in image and word.
Publisher: Dewi Lewis Publishing
ISBN: 9781904587996
Category : Grand Trunk Road (India and Pakistan)
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
The Grand Trunk Road is one of the oldest and longest highways in southern Asia. Through oral testimonies, photographs and texts, Tim Smith explores its history and shows how close links between Britain and places along the road continue to this day. The Grand Trunk Road was the main artery for conquest by the British Raj and passes through the ancestral homes of many British Asians. For the first time, the story of the profound impact of the British on this highway and its people is told in image and word.
On the Grand Trunk Road
Author: Steve Coll
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101029137
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of Ghost Wars and The Achilles Trap, a trek across a socially and politically damaged South Asia Bestselling author Steve Coll is one of the preeminent journalists of the twenty-first century. His last two books, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Ghost Wars and New York Times bestseller The Bin Ladens, have been praised for their creative insight and complex yet compelling narratives-and have put him on par with journalists such as the legendary Bob Woodward. Now, for the first time ever, the paperback edition of On the Grand Trunk Road is finally available, revised and updated with new material. Focusing on Coll's journeys in conflict-ridden India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Afghanistan as a bureau chief for The Washington Post, On the Grand Trunk Road reveals a little-seen area of the world where violence, corruption, and greed have had devastating effects on South Asians from all walks of life.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101029137
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of Ghost Wars and The Achilles Trap, a trek across a socially and politically damaged South Asia Bestselling author Steve Coll is one of the preeminent journalists of the twenty-first century. His last two books, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Ghost Wars and New York Times bestseller The Bin Ladens, have been praised for their creative insight and complex yet compelling narratives-and have put him on par with journalists such as the legendary Bob Woodward. Now, for the first time ever, the paperback edition of On the Grand Trunk Road is finally available, revised and updated with new material. Focusing on Coll's journeys in conflict-ridden India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Afghanistan as a bureau chief for The Washington Post, On the Grand Trunk Road reveals a little-seen area of the world where violence, corruption, and greed have had devastating effects on South Asians from all walks of life.
Bullet Up the Grand Trunk Road
Author: Jonathan Gregson
Publisher: Random House (UK)
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
The Grand Trunk Road stretches 1600 miles, from Calcutta to the North-west frontier. Some 50 years after, it served as an escape route for 15 million refugees, following Independence and Partition, the author travels the road on a 1940s Enfield Bullet motorbike.
Publisher: Random House (UK)
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
The Grand Trunk Road stretches 1600 miles, from Calcutta to the North-west frontier. Some 50 years after, it served as an escape route for 15 million refugees, following Independence and Partition, the author travels the road on a 1940s Enfield Bullet motorbike.
The Silk Roads
Author: Vadime Elisseeff
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781571812216
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
A look at the cultural, or intercultural, exchange that took place in the Silk Roads and the role this has played in the shaping of cultures and civilizations.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781571812216
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
A look at the cultural, or intercultural, exchange that took place in the Silk Roads and the role this has played in the shaping of cultures and civilizations.
Tales Of the Open Road
Author: Ruskin Bond
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 8184750706
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
‘I have come to believe that the best kind of walk, or journey, is the one in which you have no particular destination when you set out.’ Ruskin Bond’s travel writing is unlike what is found in most travelogues, because he will take you to the smaller, lesser-known corners of the country, acquaint you with the least-famous locals there, and describe the flora and fauna that others would have missed. And if the place is well known, Ruskin leaves the common tourist spots to find a small alley or shop where he finds colourful characters to engage in conversation. Tales of the Open Road is a collection of Ruskin Bond’s travel writing over fifty years. Here, you will encounter a tonga ride through the Shivaliks, a hidden waterfall near Rishikesh, walks along the myriad streets of Delhi (one of which used to be the richest in Asia), trips down the Grand Trunk Road, stopovers in little tea stalls in the hills around Mussoorie, and an excursion to the icy source of the Ganga at over ten thousand feet above sea level. Enriched by rare photographs that Ruskin took during his travels, Tales of the Open Road is a celebration of small-town and rural India by its most engaging chronicler.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 8184750706
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
‘I have come to believe that the best kind of walk, or journey, is the one in which you have no particular destination when you set out.’ Ruskin Bond’s travel writing is unlike what is found in most travelogues, because he will take you to the smaller, lesser-known corners of the country, acquaint you with the least-famous locals there, and describe the flora and fauna that others would have missed. And if the place is well known, Ruskin leaves the common tourist spots to find a small alley or shop where he finds colourful characters to engage in conversation. Tales of the Open Road is a collection of Ruskin Bond’s travel writing over fifty years. Here, you will encounter a tonga ride through the Shivaliks, a hidden waterfall near Rishikesh, walks along the myriad streets of Delhi (one of which used to be the richest in Asia), trips down the Grand Trunk Road, stopovers in little tea stalls in the hills around Mussoorie, and an excursion to the icy source of the Ganga at over ten thousand feet above sea level. Enriched by rare photographs that Ruskin took during his travels, Tales of the Open Road is a celebration of small-town and rural India by its most engaging chronicler.
Ameri-Khan
Author: Gordon King
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781599266275
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
AMERI-KHAN: Frontier Duty on the Grand Trunk Road A novel by Gordon King The book lays out in vivid fashion US diplomat David Booth's assignment during the Eisenhower Presidency to open an American Consulate in Peshawar, Pakistan, pioneering an American diplomatic presence in the wild lawless area between the great Indus River and the border with Afghanistan. It included the fabled Khyber Pass, Baluchistan Province in the far south, and the majestic Himalayas in the far north, an area which for centuries had known only the law of the rifle and the rigors of tribal ways. The Grand Trunk Road, alive with legions of walkers and caravans, ended in Booth's district, thousands of miles from its origin in Calcutta. He made a home for his wife and children in Peshawar, opened an official American office, and hired a staff including an advisor who happened to be a member of the ruling family of a northern principality. The new office dealt with a myriad of cultural, bureaucratic and practical crises in the process of getting firmly established. (cont'd on back flap) For example, an elderly American woman died in a local hotel--and her corpse was accidentally switched with that of a tribal Khan, creating a sensation among the Pushtun tribes. An American Colonel, in charge of a training detachment assigned to the Pakistan Army, turned pacifist with messy results. A church bazaar dissolved before a riot. Later, Booth spent five nightmare days in a hospital with bulbar malaria--5% recovery rate--before retreating to his prince advisor's mountain home for a recovery. After two years of further adventures and crises for David and his family, two young Americans from Missouri arrived on foot after endless months of trekking, determined to walk around the world. Despite David's help and advice, the World Walkers managed to insult a local tribal Khan with the result that they were forced to make a quick guarded trek through tribal territory toward the Afghan border--a flight that provoked tragedy. And resulted in David welcoming his transfer orders from Washington.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781599266275
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
AMERI-KHAN: Frontier Duty on the Grand Trunk Road A novel by Gordon King The book lays out in vivid fashion US diplomat David Booth's assignment during the Eisenhower Presidency to open an American Consulate in Peshawar, Pakistan, pioneering an American diplomatic presence in the wild lawless area between the great Indus River and the border with Afghanistan. It included the fabled Khyber Pass, Baluchistan Province in the far south, and the majestic Himalayas in the far north, an area which for centuries had known only the law of the rifle and the rigors of tribal ways. The Grand Trunk Road, alive with legions of walkers and caravans, ended in Booth's district, thousands of miles from its origin in Calcutta. He made a home for his wife and children in Peshawar, opened an official American office, and hired a staff including an advisor who happened to be a member of the ruling family of a northern principality. The new office dealt with a myriad of cultural, bureaucratic and practical crises in the process of getting firmly established. (cont'd on back flap) For example, an elderly American woman died in a local hotel--and her corpse was accidentally switched with that of a tribal Khan, creating a sensation among the Pushtun tribes. An American Colonel, in charge of a training detachment assigned to the Pakistan Army, turned pacifist with messy results. A church bazaar dissolved before a riot. Later, Booth spent five nightmare days in a hospital with bulbar malaria--5% recovery rate--before retreating to his prince advisor's mountain home for a recovery. After two years of further adventures and crises for David and his family, two young Americans from Missouri arrived on foot after endless months of trekking, determined to walk around the world. Despite David's help and advice, the World Walkers managed to insult a local tribal Khan with the result that they were forced to make a quick guarded trek through tribal territory toward the Afghan border--a flight that provoked tragedy. And resulted in David welcoming his transfer orders from Washington.