A WORLD famous author, historian, and travel writer is Salisbury bound this September.

William Dalrymple is coming to Salisbury with his brand new best-selling book, 'The Golden Road,' for an event at the Godolphin Performing Arts Centre.

'The Golden Road' lifts the lid on the undervalued history of Classical and Early-Mediaeval India, and includes Dalrymple's counter-argument to the Silk Road theory.

Waterstones said: "In 'The Golden Road,' William Dalrymple gives a name to the spread of Indian ideas that transformed the world; crossing political borders and influencing everything they touched, from statues of Indian ascetics erected in Roman seaports to Cambodian friezes of the Mahabharata, from the Buddhism of Japan to the Hindu rituals of Bali, from the echoes of Sanskrit poems found in Chinese poetry to the discovery of the algorithm and the observatories of Baghdad.

The statement continued: "Over half the world’s population lives in areas where Indian religions and culture are, or once were, dominant.

"Meanwhile India’s intellectual influence travelled far to the West, giving us not only crucial mathematical concepts such as zero, but also the very numbers we use to this day: arguably the nearest thing humanity has to a universal language.

"Drawing from a lifetime of scholarship, Dalrymple argues that India is the great intellectual and philosophical superpower of ancient Asia."

For more information on the event, click here.