The Far East and a New Europe (The Illustrated History of the World, Volume 5)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: January 7, 2002
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780195215236
First sentence: THOUGH ACCOMPANIED and advised by scholars and savants, Alexander the Great had only hazy ideas of what he would find in India; he seems to have thought the Indus part of the Nile and that beyond it lay more of Ethiopia.