William Dalrymple: The Golden Road, Kartoniert / Broschiert
The Golden Road
- How Ancient India Transformed the World
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- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury UK, 06/2025
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781408864432
- Item number:
- 11949964
- Volume:
- 481 Pages
- Weight:
- 480 g
- Format:
- 198 x 129 mm
- Thickness:
- 40 mm
- Release date:
- 5.6.2025
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Caution: Product is not in German language
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Blurb
FROM THE AWARD-WINNING, BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND CO-HOST OF THE CHART-TOPPING EMPIRE PODCAST - A REVOLUTIONARY NEW HISTORY OF INDIA
?A master storyteller' Sunday Times
India is the forgotten heart of the ancient world
For a millennium and a half, India was a confident exporter of its diverse civilisation, creating around it a vast empire of ideas. Indian art, religions, technology, astronomy, music, dance, literature, mathematics and mythology blazed a trail across the world, along a Golden Road that stretched from the Red Sea to the Pacific.
William Dalrymple draws from a lifetime of scholarship to highlight India's oft-forgotten position as the heart of ancient Eurasia. For the first time, he gives a name to this spread of Indian ideas that transformed the world. From the largest Hindu temple in the world at Angkor Wat to the Buddhism of Japan, from the trade that helped fund the Roman Empire to the creation of the numerals we use today (including zero), India transformed the culture and technology of its ancient world - and our world today as we know it.
?At the forefront of the new wave of popular history' Observer
?A superb historian with a visceral understanding of India' The Times
Biography
William Dalrymple was born in Scotland and brought up on the shores of the Firth of Forth.He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Asiatic Society. His Radio 4 series on the history of British spirituality and mysticism, 'The Long Search' , won the 2002 Sandford St. Martin Prize for Religious Broadcasting. He is married to the artist Olivia Fraser, and they have three children. They divide their time between London, Scotland and Delhi.
