Darkest England

<p>In his best-selling <em>Darkest England</em> Idries Shah asserts that the English hail from a little-known place called ‘Hathaby’ but their roots go back much farther perhaps to the distant Asian realm of Sakasina. Once a nomadic tribe of warriors the English fled westward bringing with them epic tales traditions and an Oriental way of thought.</p><p>Shah charts the genius of the English in adopting and adapting ‘almost anything spiritual moral or material’ for their own use – a faculty that has transformed them from warrior nomads into successful diplomats businessmen thinkers and scientists.</p>