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SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR'A dazzlingly brilliant book' Hannah Dawson'Fascinating, often exhilarating ... Albinia is an intrepid, imaginative guide' TLSThe Britannias tells the story of Britain's islands and how they are woven into its collective cultural psyche.From Neolithic Orkney to modern-day Thanet, Alice Albinia explores the furthest reaches of Britain's island topography, once known (wrote Pliny) by the...

This is the story of Britain's islands and how they are woven into its culture, history and collective psyche. From Neolithic Orkney and druidical Anglesey to the joys and strangeness of modern Thanet, we explore the furthest reaches of Britain's island topography, once known by the collective term, Britanniae (the Britains). Alice Albinia takes the reader over borders and through disparate island cultures, past and present, listening to negle...

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This is the story of Britain's islands and the impress they have made on its culture, history and collective psyche. From Neolithic Orkney and druidical Anglesey to the joys and strangeness of modern Thanet, we explore the furthest reaches of Britain's island topography, once known by the collective term, Britanniae (the Britains). Alice Albinia takes the reader over borders and through disparate island cultures, past and present, listening to...

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A mysterious death, a band of women and a remote island where anything is possible...

Leela - alluring, taciturn, haunted - is moving back to Delhi after years of exile in New York.

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Encuadernación: CartonéLila, una bella mujer de misterioso pasado, vuelve a Delhi desde Nueva York, veinte años después, para asistir a la fastuosa boda de una sobrina de su marido. Su regreso desempolva hechos del pasado y vuelve a remover relaciones enfriadas por la falta de contacto y por la lejanía emocional, Enredos de familia con desenlaces sorprendentes, un soberbio retrato de la sociedad india actual, con las luces y sombras generadas ...

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In her fiction debut, Alice Albinia weaves a multithreaded epic tale that encompasses divine saga and familial discord and introduces an unforgettable heroine. Leela-alluring, taciturn, haunted-is moving from New York back to Delhi. Worldly and accomplished, she has been in self-imposed exile from India and her family for decades, twenty-two years earlier, her sister was seduced by the egotistical Vyasa, and the fallout from their relationship...

One of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains and flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. It has been worshipped as a god, used as a tool of imperial expansion, and today is the cement of Pakistan's fractious union. Alice Albinia follows the river upstream, through two thousand miles of geography and back to a time five thousand years ago when a string of sophisticated cities grew on its ...

Imperi dell'Indo" è il resoconto dell'audace viaggio solitario lungo il "Fiume dei Fiumi", dalla foce alla sorgente, compiuto da Alice Albinia a ventinove anni: più di tremila chilometri attraverso paesi, panorami e popoli osservati con sguardo empatico, in un pellegrinaggio avventuroso fra tribù pashtun e fuoricasta metropolitani, santuari sufi e fondamentalisti islamici, fitto di incontri con memorabili personaggi il cui destino è fatalmente...