THERE AND BACK C Hardcover – 9 February 2018
Stewart Gordon . OUP India . English
Though travelling is lauded as a means of enriching our lives, the emphasis is generally on the destination rather than the journey. Yet, throughout human history, routes have ferried not just people but books, scrolls and art, in addition to armies, ambassadorial entourages, slaves, brides and pilgrims. The interaction of people on routes generated surprising innovations.Through myths, memoirs and songs associated with twelve such great routes across five continents, historian Stewart Gordon shows how they captured the collective imagination and shaped the expectations of generations of would-be travellers.
Categories: Action & Adventure
About the Author
Stewart Gordon is a Senior Research Scholar at the South Asia Center of the University of Michigan. That said, he is anything but a stuffy academic. He has rambled by bus across Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. He has climbed Inca paths in Peru and boated up the Mekong and the Mississippi. Gordon has photographed antiquities in Cambodia and Paleolithic cave paintings in India and has served as a consultant for the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, the Walt Disney Company and the American Queen steamboat. He writes regularly for Aramco World magazine. Gordon has received many awards including Woodrow Wilson and Fulbright fellowships and an Earhart Foundation writing grant. His 2008 book, “When Asia was the World”, became a bestseller and has been translated into eight languages. The National Endowment for the Humanities placed the book in more than 1000 libraries across the United States. His new teaching text, "A History of the World in Seven Themes" Is published by Oxford University Press. He currently lives in Ann Arbor. You can follow Gordon’s talks, workshops, academic and popular publications and photos of his travels at stewartgordonhistorian.com
