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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Tracing a Lost City

Tracing a Lost City

Job, Shibu M.

Paperback

Indian & South Asian History

ISBN13: 9798647437877
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 20 2020
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.31 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A river on a rocky bed and a chain of tors serrating the skyline enclose an endless fairyland of ruins. One gets bewitched walking into these eerie ruins strewn in a desolate landscape, which hosted a splendid city in the medieval ages. The city that it hosted for centuries was Vijayanagar, capital of the last great Hindu empire in India by the same name. Hampi, a sleepy village, 220 miles north of the city Bengaluru, is the site where the dead city of Vijayanagar was discovered several centuries after it was lost and forgotten. Tracing A Lost City is a travel writing on Hampi. The book attempts at travelling from today's village of Hampi back in time to the city of Vijayanagar of the middle ages and from there to the palmy days of the empire of which it was capital. In the style of a compelling story, the narrative transgresses time, passing between the present and the past. Taking time off the package of history the traveller also wanders from ruins, monuments and basso-relievo to a landscape of scrub jungle on the rocky hilltops of Hampi to photograph sloth bears and birds.

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