BOOK REVIEW
Book- EMPIRES OF THE INDUS
Author- Alice Albinia
Pages- 336
Price- Rs 550
Publisher- John Murray Hachette India
A beautifully written book by Albinia, with in depth detail to each aspect, is bound to change the mindset of millions sitting acroos the borders on all sides of the Indian sub continent and other Asians. The author really did her homework well before writing this extraordinarily magnificent story.
The Indus valley civilization that was founded more than 3000 years Before Christ, has been forgotten by its very own people and this foreigner Albibia does a splendid job in reminding us about the world's oldest civilization. The Indus river flows across four huge nations of the Asian continent presently who cannot see eye to eye with each other, China, Tibet, India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. The whole story has been written in a very captivating and enthralling manner.
Albinia travelled all through the river, from its mouth to its source, to explore the known and the unknown while risking her life in the terror prone areas of Xingjiang, Pakistan, Kashmir and Afghanistan. The most dangerous part of her journey was when she trekked from Mount kaisasg to the source of the Indus.
It seems like now she can even write a whole new book about her entire overland journey to Pakistan from London via Brussels, Germany, Poland, Belarus, Moscow, Kazakhastan, Urumqi (China), Kashgar and finally to Delhi via Amritsar.
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