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by Michael Wood
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Author: Michael WoodEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-11-12
ISBN: 0465003591
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Basic Books
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- ISBN13: 9780465003594
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Summary: 2 Stars
What may be wonderful TV does not transfer well to the written page.A sweeping view of Indian history becomes bogged down in pretty turgid accounts of obscure emperors about whom very little is known. Michael Wood's tremendous enthusiasm rapidly starts to grate on my nerves.The book would have befitted from drastic editing and proof reading. One practical suggestion would be a reduction in the repetitive use of the adjective "great" to describe everything under the Indian Sun. For Michael Wood, all things are "great", from temples to civilisations to religions to ideas.The books contains some magnificent photographs, but the captions tell us very little.A gushing, journalistic style of writing does not do justice to the needs of those who seek to know and understand something of what makes up the identity of a country which fascinates so many of us.
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