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- catalog abstract "Overview: Once upon a time an Indian writer named Amitav Ghosh set out to find an Indian slave, name unknown, who some seven hundred years before had traveled to the Middle East. The journey took him to a small village in Egypt, where medieval customs coexist with twentieth-century desires and discontents. But even as Ghosh sought to re-create the life of his Indian predecessor, he found himself immersed in those of his modern Egyptian neighbors. Combining shrewd observations with painstaking historical research, Ghosh serves up skeptics and holy men, merchants and sorcerers. Some of these figures are real, some only imagined, 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.".
- catalog contributor b12237405.
- catalog created "1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-393).".
- catalog description "Overview: Once upon a time an Indian writer named Amitav Ghosh set out to find an Indian slave, name unknown, who some seven hundred years before had traveled to the Middle East. The journey took him to a small village in Egypt, where medieval customs coexist with twentieth-century desires and discontents. But even as Ghosh sought to re-create the life of his Indian predecessor, he found himself immersed in those of his modern Egyptian neighbors. Combining shrewd observations with painstaking historical research, Ghosh serves up skeptics and holy men, merchants and sorcerers. Some of these figures are real, some only imagined, 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.".
- catalog description "Prologue -- Laṭaifa -- Nashawy -- Mangalore -- Going back -- Epilogue -- Note.".
- catalog extent "393 p. ;".
- catalog hasVersion "In an antique land.".
- catalog identifier "0679727833 (pbk.) :".
- catalog isPartOf "Vintage departures".
- catalog isVersionOf "Reprint of: Ghosh, Amitav. In an antique land. New York : A.A. Knopf, 1993 039458368X (DLC) 92054276 (OCoLC)223198679".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Vintage Books,".
- catalog relation "In an antique land.".
- catalog spatial "Egypt".
- catalog subject "916.204/2 20".
- catalog subject "Ben Yijû, Abraham, active 12th century.".
- catalog subject "Bomma, active 12th century.".
- catalog subject "DT56.2 .G48 1994".
- catalog subject "Ghosh, Amitav Journeys Egypt.".
- catalog subject "Ghosh, Amitav, 1956- Travel Egypt.".
- catalog subject "Jewish merchants Egypt Biography.".
- catalog subject "Slaves Egypt Biography.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Prologue -- Laṭaifa -- Nashawy -- Mangalore -- Going back -- Epilogue -- Note.".
- catalog title "In an antique land / Amitav Ghosh.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".