The Age Of Kali: Travels And Encounters In India

Author: William Dalrymple

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  • : $26.00 NZD
  • : 9780006547754
  • : HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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  • : June 1999
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 25.99
  • : April 2005
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  • : English
  • : 915.40452
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Barcode 9780006547754
9780006547754

Description

The fourth book from the most acclaimed and gifted young travel writer of his generation, author of the best-selling In Xanadu, City of Djinns and From the Holy Mountain.

Reviews

'Dalrymple is probably the best travel writer of his generation' Daily Mail 'The future of travel writing lies in the hands of gifted authors like Dalrymple' Sara Wheeler, Independent

Author description

William Dalrymple's first book, In Xanadu, won the Yorkshire Post Best First Work Award and the Scottish Arts Council Spring Book Award, and was shortlisted for the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize. His second, City of Djinns, won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award. His third, From the Holy Mountain, was published in April 1997. He is the youngest Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and has recently written and presented a six-part series on the buildings of the Raj for Channel 4.