Travels in a Dervish cloak / Isambard Wilkinson
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TextPublication details: India Bloomsbury 2017Description: 243 pISBN: - 9789388038171
- 915.4910 WIL-I
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| 915.48303 NAT-B Cities of Kerala : actually small towns / | 915.484 LYN-H Days of the beloved / | 915.484 SAR-R Deodis of Hyderabad : | 915.4910 WIL-I Travels in a Dervish cloak / | 915.493 FER-A Upon a sleepless Isle / | 915.4930432 PER-S Warzone tourism in Sri Lanka : | 915.496 MAT-P Snow leopard / |
Enchanted by his Anglo-Indian grandmother's stories about the subcontinent and his own youthful travels in the region, Isambard Wilkinson takes up his post as a British newspaper's correspondent in Pakistan, when the country is in the epicentre of 'the war on terror.'
Guided by his grandmother's great Pakistan friend, Wilkinson quickly abandons the journalistic pack, and, casting aside concerns for his fragile health, sets off on a quest to discover what of Pakistan's old traditions have been destroyed and what survives. His encounters with Sufi mystics, Omnipotent tribal chieftains, spies and rebellious domestic staff, unveil an often wild, contradictory and enchanting land in the throes of an identity crisis. His lyrical, incisive, moving and often hilarious accounts of his years spent exploring a misunderstood country has been hailed as a modern classic of the genre.
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