A Goddess in the Stones: Travels in IndiaThe last volume of the trilogy on the Southern sub-continent, following A Dragon Apparent and Golden Earth. It was Norman's belief that much of the old India described by early travellers remained to be re-discovered off the beaten track, and accordingly he undertook a journey of 2,500 miles in search of this. |
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