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In an Antique Land is a subversive history in the guise of a traveller's tale. When the author stumbles across a slave narrative in the margins of an ancient text, his curiosity is piqued. What follows is a ten year search, which brings author and slave together across 800 hundred years of colonial history. Bursting with anecdote and exuberant detail, it offers a magical, intimate biography of the private life of a country, Egypt, from the Crusades to Operation Desert Storm.

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In an Antique Land is a subversive history in the guise of a traveller's tale. When the author stumbles across... Read more

    Publisher: Granta Books
    Publication Date: 05/01/2012
    ISBN13: 9781847081940, 978-1847081940
    ISBN10: 1847081940

    Number of Pages: 400

    Non Fiction , ELT & Literary Studies

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    In an Antique Land is a subversive history in the guise of a traveller's tale. When the author stumbles across a slave narrative in the margins of an ancient text, his curiosity is piqued. What follows is a ten year search, which brings author and slave together across 800 hundred years of colonial history. Bursting with anecdote and exuberant detail, it offers a magical, intimate biography of the private life of a country, Egypt, from the Crusades to Operation Desert Storm.

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