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In The Country of Gold-digging Ants

Author : Anu Kumar
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 8184758146
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book In The Country of Gold-digging Ants written by Anu Kumar and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-02-20 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you think Indian history is boring? Check out what these ancient reporters had to say about our country many centuries ago. In his book, Indika, Megasthenes, a Greek traveller, wrote about giant meat-eating ants that dug for gold in mines somewhere in eastern India! Hiuen Tsang, from China, was witness to an assassination attempt on King Harshavardhana at a religious gathering. The Venetian Marco Polo described how the people of Kashmir could use charms to change the weather and bring about darkness. Athanasius Nikitin, from Russia, was amazed by the sultan of Bidar, who went hunting accompanied by 10,000 men on horseback, 50,000 on foot, 200 elephants, 100 dancers, 300 horses, 100 monkeys and 100 concubines! Read astonishing stories about India written by explorers who came to the country as pilgrims, students, traders, voyagers and fortune-seekers from the 3rd century BC till the mid-twentieth century. These visitors left behind fascinating accounts of their perilous journeys in an unknown land; descriptions of what the people ate, wore and thought; who ruled them and how; the strange animals of this land, and many more startling facts which are often the only written historical records of those times. Filled with incredible stories and nuggets of information, In the Country of Gold-digging Ants brings alive the exciting adventures of eleven intrepid men and women, and may just make history your most favourite subject!

Snakes with Wings and Gold-digging Ants

Author : Herodotus
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141964839
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Snakes with Wings and Gold-digging Ants written by Herodotus and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So much of what we know of the Ancient World comes from Herodotus (c.490 BC - c.420 BC) that he will always remain the greatest of historians. But in addition such a large part of the entertainment value of the Ancient World comes from his enormous, omnivorous, sometimes credulous appetite for stories of distant lands and strange creatures. Great Journeys allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries – but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things: Great civilisations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered.

The Ants' Gold

Author : Michel Peissel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Ants' Gold written by Michel Peissel and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Let's Go Time Travelling

Author : Subhadra Sen Gupta
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 818475678X
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book Let's Go Time Travelling written by Subhadra Sen Gupta and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-09-15 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was king Ashoka fond of chewing paan? Mulligatawny was a soup, but what was pish-pash? Did they design jewellery in Harappa? Who played pachisi, chaupar and lam turki? Find the answers to all these weird, impossible question in this fascinating book about how people lived in the past. Go time travelling through the alleys of history and take a tour through the various ages—from Harappa to the Mauryan, Mughal to the British. Through short snapshots and wacky trivia, this book gives you a glimpse into the vibrant culture of India, as you learn about the life and times of kings, queens, viceroys and even ordinary children! Spend a day with Urpi as she tries selling pottery in exchange for a few beads at Mohen-jo-daro; step back into King Ashoka’s kingdom where Madhura prepares to be a warrior; watch Adil harbour hopes of becoming a khansama in British India.

The Madness of Cambyses

Author : Herodotus
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141398787
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book The Madness of Cambyses written by Herodotus and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Do you see your son, standing over there, in the antechamber? Well, I am going to shoot him.' The story of the great and mad Cambyses, King of Persia, told by part-historian, part-mythmaker Herodotus of Halicarnassus. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Herodotus (c.484-425 BCE). Herodotus's The Histories is also available in Penguin Classics.

The Quarterly Journal of the Mythic Society (Bangalore, India).

Author : Mythic Society (Bangalore, India)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (23 download)

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The Quarterly Journal of the Mythic Society (Bangalore).

Author : Mythic Society (Bangalore, India)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
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Download or read book The Quarterly Journal of the Mythic Society (Bangalore). written by Mythic Society (Bangalore, India) and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Dictionary of the Economic Products of India: Dacrydium to Gordonia

Author : Sir George Watt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of the Economic Products of India: Dacrydium to Gordonia written by Sir George Watt and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Invasion of India by Alexander the Great

Author : John Watson McCrindle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Invasion of India by Alexander the Great written by John Watson McCrindle and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Invasion of India by Alexander the Great

Author : John Watson McCrindle
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Invasion of India by Alexander the Great written by John Watson McCrindle and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-24 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was created when John Watson McCrindle lived and worked in India as a schoolteacher. His interest in the state poured into years-long research of the ancient Greek and Latin text, where he collected the mentions of India. For this research, he collected materials from the works by Arrian, Q. Curtius, Diodoros, Plutarch, and Justin. The book follows Alexander's invasion in India, with all the great leader's campaigns on his way, including his invasion in Afghanistan, the Panjâb, Sindh, Gedrosia, and Karmania.

Indian Antiquary

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Indian Antiquary written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Invasion of India by Alexander the Great as Described by Arrian, Q. Curtius, Diodoros, Plutarch and Justin

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
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Download or read book The Invasion of India by Alexander the Great as Described by Arrian, Q. Curtius, Diodoros, Plutarch and Justin written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gold: Its Occurrence and Extraction

Author : Alfred George Lock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1284 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Gold: Its Occurrence and Extraction written by Alfred George Lock and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 1284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A History of Western Tibet

Author : August Hermann Francke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book A History of Western Tibet written by August Hermann Francke and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Hindustan Review

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book The Hindustan Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

India in Mind

Author : Pankaj Mishra
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307532585
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book India in Mind written by Pankaj Mishra and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since Herodotus reported that it was home to gold-digging ants, travelers have been intrigued by India in all its beguiling complexity. This superb anthology gives us some of the best fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that has been written about the world’s second most populous nation over the past two centuries. From Mark Twain’s puzzled fascination with Indian castes and customs, to Allen Ginsberg’s awe at the country’s spiritual and natural splendors, or from J. R. Ackerley’s delightful recollections of his visits with an eccentric gay Maharajah, to Gore Vidal’s unforgettable scene in his novel Creation, in which his character finally meets the Buddha and is bewildered–all twenty-five selections in India in Mind reveal a place that evokes, in the traveler, reactions ranging from fear and perplexity to astonishment and wonder. Edited and with an introduction and chapter notes by the award-winning novelist Pankaj Mishra, India in Mind is a marvel of sympathy, sensitivity, and perception, not to mention outstanding writing. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Indian Antiquary

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Indian Antiquary written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At a time when each Society had its own medium of propogation of its researches ... in the form of Transactions, Proceedings, Journals, etc., a need was strongly felt for bringing out a journal devoted exclusively to the study and advancement of Indian culture in all its aspects. [This] encouraged Jas Burgess to launch the 'Indian antiquary' in 1872. The scope ... was in his own words 'as wide as possible' incorporating manners and customs, arts, mythology, feasts, festivals and rites, antiquities and the history of India ... Another laudable aim was to present the readers abstracts of the most recent researches of scholars in India and the West ... 'Indian antiquary' also dealt with local legends, folklore, proverbs, etc. In short 'Indian antiquary' was ...entirely devoted to the study of MAN - the Indian - in all spheres ... " -- introduction to facsimile volumes, published 1985.