{"product_id":"the-golden-road-william-dalrymple","title":"The Golden Road (William Dalrymple)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE INSTANT \u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eWaterstones \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eTIMES \u003c\/i\u003eHISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eSPECTATOR \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eHistory Today \u003c\/i\u003eBOOK OF THE YEAR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA revolutionary new history of the diffusion of Indian ideas,  from the award-winning, bestselling author and co-host of the chart-topping \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmpire\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003epodcast\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Richly woven, highly readable ... Written with passion and verve' \u003ci\u003eSpectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Dazzling ... Not just a historical study but also a love letter' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn outstanding new account ...\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe most compelling retelling we have had for generations\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e' \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndia is the forgotten heart of the ancient world.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the millennium and a half from c. 250 BC to 1200 AD, Indian art, religion, technology, astronomy, music, dance, literature, mathematics and mythology blazed a trail across the world - a Golden Road that stretched from the Red Sea to the Pacific. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere, William Dalrymple draws from a lifetime of scholarship to highlight India's oft-forgotten position as the heart of ancient Eurasia. For the first time, he gives a name to this spread of Indian ideas that transformed the culture and technology of not only its ancient world, but of the world as we know it today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eWilliam Dalrymple is one of Britain's great historians and the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Golden Road\u003c\/i\u003e, the Wolfson Prize-winning \u003ci\u003eWhite Mughals\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Mughal\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Duff Cooper Prize, the Hemingway and Kapuscinski Prize-winning \u003ci\u003eReturn of a King, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Anarchy\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the Cundill History Prize and one of Barack Obama's favorite books of 2019. A frequent broadcaster, he has written and presented three television series, one of which won the Grierson Award for Best Documentary Series at BAFTA. He has also won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, the \u003ci\u003eSunday Times \u003c\/i\u003eYoung British Writer of the Year Award, the Foreign Correspondent of the Year at the FPA Media Awards, and been awarded five honorary doctorates. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Royal Asiatic Society and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and has held visiting fellowships at Princeton, Brown and All Souls, University of Oxford. He writes regularly for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2018 he was presented with the prestigious President's Medal by the British Academy for his outstanding literary achievement and for co-founding the Jaipur Literature Festival. He is the co-host of chart-topping podcast \u003ci\u003eEmpire \u003c\/i\u003ewith Anita Anand. William lives with his wife and three children on a goat farm outside Delhi.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Englisch, 496 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65838033273181,"sku":"K097738213","price":15.8,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9773821300001A.jpg?v=1788739784","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/the-golden-road-william-dalrymple","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}