Indus Epic Wins Travel Award

Alice Albinia has won the Dolman Best Travel Book Award for 2009 for her book Empires of the Indus. Her epic travelogue, which has already won a Somerset Maugham award and the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Foundation Special Prize for Non-Fiction, charts the history of the Indus river as Albinia travels along its 2,000-mile course through Pakistan, Afghanistan and Kashmir to its source in Chinese-occupied Tibet.