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Author | : Steve Coll |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2009-03-31 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9780143115199 |
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.
Author | : Anirudh Arora |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Cooking |
ISBN | : 9781847739681 |
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
Author | : Pushpesh Pant |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 141 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Cookery, Indic |
ISBN | : 9788174363626 |
Author | : Tim Smith |
Publisher | : Dewi Lewis Publishing |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Grand Trunk Road (India and Pakistan) |
ISBN | : 9781904587996 |
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.
Author | : Jonathan Gregson |
Publisher | : Random House (UK) |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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.
Author | : Rashid, Salman |
Publisher | : UNESCO Publishing |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2020-10-08 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9231003879 |
Author | : Barry Mitchell |
Publisher | : Red Deer, Alta. : Nomad Creek Books, Barry Mitchell Publications |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : Alberta |
ISBN | : 9780968860304 |
Author | : Vadime Elisseeff |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781571812216 |
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.
Author | : Economic Development Committee for the Civil Engineering Industry |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 6 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Roads |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Amor Towles |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 593 |
Release | : 2021-10-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0735222371 |
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER More than ONE MILLION copies sold A TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick A New York Times Notable Book, and Chosen by Oprah Daily, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Bill Gates and Barack Obama as a Best Book of the Year “Wise and wildly entertaining . . . permeated with light, wit, youth.” —The New York Times Book Review “A classic that we will read for years to come.” —Jenna Bush Hager, Read with Jenna book club “Fantastic. Set in 1954, Towles uses the story of two brothers to show that our personal journeys are never as linear or predictable as we might hope.” —Bill Gates “A real joyride . . . elegantly constructed and compulsively readable.” —NPR The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden's car. Together, they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take them all on a fateful journey in the opposite direction—to the City of New York. Spanning just ten days and told from multiple points of view, Towles's third novel will satisfy fans of his multi-layered literary styling while providing them an array of new and richly imagined settings, characters, and themes. “Once again, I was wowed by Towles’s writing—especially because The Lincoln Highway is so different from A Gentleman in Moscow in terms of setting, plot, and themes. Towles is not a one-trick pony. Like all the best storytellers, he has range. He takes inspiration from famous hero’s journeys, including The Iliad, The Odyssey, Hamlet, Huckleberry Finn, and Of Mice and Men. He seems to be saying that our personal journeys are never as linear or predictable as an interstate highway. But, he suggests, when something (or someone) tries to steer us off course, it is possible to take the wheel.” – Bill Gates