Roads and Kingdoms: A Subcontinental History of the Lands Now Pakistan

by Catriona Luke

'The landscape reminds me so powerfully of southern rural France. It is so green, so contentedly rural and achingly old with its practical canals which the Greek ambassador Megasthenes recorded over two thousand years ago, a hundred years after Alexander had brought the Macedonians to Punjab. Out of the corner of my eye I think see the 16th-century French philosopher Michel Eyquem de Montaigne riding through the fruit groves and avenues of poplars...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147461728X
• ISBN13: 9781474617284
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
• Length: 384 Pages