Ghosh's book is extraordinary; a travel book that reaches back into the twelth century as it touches on the dilemmas of our own time.
Sunday Times
Ghosh is an engagingly humble and receptive traveller... a refreshing reversal of the usual power relationship between the observing (European) travel writer and his indigenous subjects.
Guardian
A rich and satisfying journey
The Times
This captivating, extraordinary story offers the general reader a vision of a rapidly disappearing world told with such grace, humility and insight that its appeal is universal
- Julie Fisher, Bookmunch