TY - BOOK AU - Albinia,Alice TI - Empires of the Indus : the story of a river SN - 9780719560033 (hbk.) U1 - 954.91 PY - 2008/// CY - London PB - John Murray KW - Indus civilization KW - Asia--Indus River Valley KW - Travel KW - Asia--Indus River Region N2 - The Indus rises in Tibet, flows west across India, and south through Pakistan. For millennia it has been worshipped as a god; for centuries used as a tool of imperial expansion. Empires of the Indus follows the river upstream and back in time, taking the reader on a voyage through two thousand miles of geography and more than five thousand years of history redolent with contemporary importance ER -