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On the Grand Trunk Road

by Steve Coll · 1993

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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.

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traveltravelMore like thisLess of thishistoryhistoryMore like thisLess of thisbiographybiographyMore like thisLess of thispoliticspoliticsMore like thisLess of this
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South AsiaSouth AsiaMore like thisLess of thisIndiaIndiaMore like thisLess of thisAsiaAsiaMore like thisLess of thisAfghanistanAfghanistanMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 352 pages

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