Older, richer and more distinctive than almost any other, India's culture furnishes all that the historian could wish for in the way of continuity and diversity. The peoples of the Indian subcontinent, while sharing a common history and culture, are...
Describes the world of the Mekong, rehabilitating a traumatised geography while recreating the historic voyage of Garnier in 1866. This book presents a story of both a dramatic journey retracing the historic voyage of France's greatest 19th-century...