Albinia follows the Indus River in Asia, one of the largest rivers in the world, through 2,000 miles of geography and back to a time 5,000 years ago when a string of sophisticated cities grew on its banks. Illustrations.

Sailing over borders, between languages and genres, trespassing through the past to understand the present, this book knocks the centre out to foreground neglected epics and subversive voices.

"Steeped in the tradition of the Indian epic, yet modern and vastly entertaining." —The Times (London) In her fiction debut, Alice Albinia weaves a multithreaded epic tale that encompasses divine saga and familial discord and introduces ...

Longlisted for the Ondaatje Prize and the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction Shortlisted for the Stanford Travel Writing Award A revelatory portrait of Britain through its islands, The Britannias weaves history, myth, and travelogue to rewrite ...

Cuando los dioses escriben el Libro del Destino es un soberbio retrato de la India actual, con el contrapunto irónico de un narrador sorprendente: Ganesh, el dios con cabeza de elefante que mueve los hilos del destino.

"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 ...

Impérios do Indo é o relato da ousada viagem solitária de Alice Albinia, então com vinte e nove anos, ao longo do «Rio dos Rios», desde a foz até a nascente: mais de três mil quilômetros cruzando cidades, paisagens e povos, ...