New Delhi: 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.

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Bookseller: Books of the World (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: RWARE0000000667
Title: In an Antique Land
Author: Amitav Ghosh
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Indian Paperback Edition
ISBN 10: 817530040X
ISBN 13: 9788175300408
Publisher: Permanent Black / Ravi Dayal
Place of Publication: New Delhi
Date Published: 2000
Keywords: biography, memoir, travel, anthropology, ethnography, jewish merchants, slavery, slaves, travel, Cairo, Nile Delta, Egypt
Bookseller catalogs: Africa; History; Biographies; Middle East;
Size: 8vo

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