The age of Kali: Travels and Encounters in India [Audiobook] download free by William Dalrymple
- Listen audiobook: The age of Kali: Travels and Encounters in India
- Author: William Dalrymple
- Release date: 2008/6/22
- Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Travel and Holiday Guides
- ISBN: 9780006547754
- Rating: 8.33 of 10
- Votes: 604
- Review by: Hayley Galindo
- Review rating: 9.29 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/23
- Duration: 5H5M34S in 256 kbps (83.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-10
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MP4, WMA, MP3, FLAC, MPEG4, WavPack, WAV, AAC (compression BZ2, TAR.7Z, AZW, Z, ISO, RAR, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 416
- Includes a PDF summary of 45 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 31M43S (9 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: William Dalrymple, who wrote so magically about India in `City of Djinns', returns to the country in a series of remarkable essays. Featured in its pages are 15-year-old guerrilla girls and dowager Maharanis; flashy Bombay drinks parties and violent village blood feuds; a group of vegetarian terrorists intent on destroying India's first Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet; and a palace where port and cigars are still carried to guests on a miniature silver steam train. Dalrymple meets such figures as Imran Khan and Benazir Bhutto; he witnesses the macabre nightly offering to the bloodthirsty goddess Parashakti - She Who Is Seated on a Throne of Five Corpses; he experiences caste massacres in the badlands of Bihar and dines with a drug baron on the North-West Frontier; he discovers such oddities as the terrorist apes of Jaipur and the shrine where Lord Krishna is said to make love every night to his 16,108 wives and 64,732 milkmaids. `The Age of Kali' is the fourth fascinating volume from the author of `In Xanadu', `City of Djinns' and `From the Holy Mountain'.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Asian History, Travel Writing, Guidebooks
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 13.47 USD
- Dimensions: 129x198x25mm
- Weight: 290g
- Printed by: Flamingo
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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