If the temperature on Sunday morning in Hyderabad was anything to go by then summer is not very far off. It wasn’t hot but a bit too warm. There was the usual crowd looking at the books spread out on the pavements by the regular sellers. Somehow I did not find many titles worth picking and in the end managed to find only one book.
A couple of years ago I had
picked up a copy of ‘The Africans’ by David Lamb that I read soon after and was
very impressed by David Lamb’s writing. I did not know then that he had also
written a similar book titled ‘The Arabs’ that I found soon afterwards. However
I am yet to read it since I had decided to read all the books I can find on a
particular region, or country or people in keeping with my developing interest
in history and geopolitics. Luckily, last Sunday I came across a nice copy of ‘The
Closed Circle- An Interpretation of the Arabs’ by David Pryce-Jones.
The paperback copy I found was published in 1990 and runs into almost four hundred and fifty pages. I read the first few paragraphs in the introduction and some random paragraphs in the inside pages and was instantly hooked. Since I am currently reading other titles I want to read ‘The Closed Circle’ sometime in the near feature. Btw, I got this copy for a hundred and fifty rupees.
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