The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World by William Dalrymple Rugs With children at the heart

With children at the heart of every beautifully illustrated spread

the start of the glorious Thatcher years

Amir realizes that one day he must return to Afghanistan under Taliban rule to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him: redemption

deft and quietly powerful

The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World by William Dalrymple Rugs With children at the heartThe Sunday Times Bestselling Author India is the forgotten heart of the ancient world. In the millennium and a half from c. 250 Bc to 1200 AD, Indian art, religion, technology, astronomy, music, dance, literature, mathematics and mythology blazed a trail across the world a Golden Road that stretched from the Red Sea to the Pacific. Like ancient Greece, ancient India came up with a set of profound answers to the big questions about what the world is,