Empires of the Indus: From Tibet to Pakistan - The Story of a River
Publisher: John Murray
Published: Apr 02, 2008
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780719560033
Description: One of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains, flows across northern India and then through Pakistan. For millennia it has been worshipped as a god, for centuries used as a tool of imperial expansion; today it is the cement of Pakistan's fractious union. This recounts a journey along the Indus, upstream and backwards in time, through two thousand miles of geography from the sea to the source; travelling back historically, from the moment that Pakistan first came into being in Karachi, to the time, millions of years ago in Tibet, when the river itself was born.