Short notice but this speaker is excellent and the program should be fascinating. Please feel free to forward to any you think would be interested in attending. Thanks.

Tai-Ling

TOMORROW, TUESDAY JUNE 22

Noon to 3 at Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena

Award-winning historian and travel writer William Dalrymple, author of the new book Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India, will read from a medley of his travel books as part of the museum’s Authors on Asia series.

Dalrymple is the author of six previous acclaimed works of history and travel, including City of Djinns, which won the Young British Writer of the Year Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award; White Mughals, winner of Britain’s most prestigious history prize, the Wolfson; and The Last Mughal, awarded the Duff Cooper Prize for History and Biography. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Asiatic Society, and is the founder and co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival.

He divides his time between New Delhi and London, and is a contributor to The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The Guardian.

The program is co-sponsored by the museum’s Pakistan Arts Council. Refreshments and Book signing included.

Program is free for museum members and included with museum admission for all others: $9 general, $7 students and seniors.

For this special event, museum galleries, usually closed on Tuesdays, will be open for visitors. Exhibitions include Beyond the Page: The Miniature as Attitude in Contemporary Art from Pakistan, Visualizing Faith: Buddhist Art in Thailand and Japan in Blue and White.  For information and to RSVP for the program, please call (626) 449-2742, ext. 20.

Pacific Asia Museum is located at 46 N. Los Robles Avenue in the Playhouse district of downtown Pasadena.  To receive monthly emails of museum events and programs visit the museum’s website www.pacificasiamuseum.org.