Within its 300 pages, a story unfolds that covers the travels of the fifth-century BCE explorer Scylax, working on behalf of the Persian king Darius I; an attempt by early 20th-century archaeologists to recover the circlet worn by Scylax; the outbreak of the first world war; the experiences of Indian Army troops on the western front and later as injured servicemen in Brighton hospitals; the rise of the non-violent independence movement in Peshawar and the bloody killing of non-violent protesters by the British Army in 1930, in Peshawar
Good points:
A great deal of armchair travelling, which I absolutely loved
Beautiful description of places
Negative points:
Ploddy and lacking in real plot
Almost tries to do do much I would have liked more detail about the horror of the trenches, life as a nurse etc.
I never felt emotionally drawn to the characters
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