Join The Explorers Club, at noon on Friday, May 9th for a deep dive into famed historian William Dalrymple’s new book – The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World.
Author William Dalrymple presents his latest book, The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World, which offers a revolutionary new history of India. Dalrymple draws from a lifetime of scholarship to highlight India’s oft-forgotten position as the heart of ancient Eurasia and gives a name to this spread of Indian ideas that transformed the world. Dalrymple traces the path of Indian intellectual, economic, scientific and spiritual accomplishments spread by traders throughout the ancient world. His talk will be accompanied with an exciting presentation of images of art, architecture, and more from that period.
This in-person event at The Explorers Club Headquarters will include an audience Q&A. A book signing will place after the talk, with books available for purchase.
RESERVATIONS
This will be an in-person lecture at Explorers Club Headquarters.
In-person tickets are $15.
Check-in will begin at 11:45 am, with the presentation to begin at noon.
William Dalrymple
William Dalrymple is one of Britain’s great historians and the bestselling author of the Wolfson Prize–winning White Mughals as well as The Last Mughal, which won the Duff Cooper Prize, and the Hemingway and Kapuscinski Prize–winning Return of a King. A frequent broadcaster, he has written and presented three television series, one of which won the Grierson Award for Best Documentary Series at BAFTA.
