Full name: On the Grand Trunk Road: A Journey into South Asia

Author: Steve Coll Year: 1993 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Travel, Non Fiction, History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780517156148 9780143115199 0517156148 0143115197

In this stirring travelogue, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter journeys through the tumultuous nations of South Asia--India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Afghanistan. This is a land where the 10th and 20th centuries uneasily intermix--and often explode. Similar books: In Europe by Geert Mak Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane Cities of Gold by Douglas Preston South with Endurance by Frank Hurley The Fourth Part of the World by Toby Lester Amsterdam by Russell Shorto A Traveller in Rome by H. V. Morton Voices of the Old Sea by Norman Lewis Going Back to Bisbee by Richard Shelton Looking for the Lost by Alan Booth Goodnight, Mister Lenin by Tiziano Terzani Korea by Daniel Tudor The Big Roads by Earl Swift The Road from the Past by Ina Caro Landfalls by Tim Mackintosh-Smith South from Granada by Gerald Brenan The Crossing Place by Philip Marsden Travels with a Tangerine by Tim Mackintosh-Smith Wild Coast by John Gimlette