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Hindoo Holiday
J. R. Ackerley, Eliot Weinberger
New York Review Books · Paperback · January 31, 2000
Reading lane: India & South Asia Travel
In the 1920s, the young J.
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Book Details
- Authors
- J. R. Ackerley, Eliot Weinberger
- Publisher
- New York Review Books
- Published
- January 31, 2000
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- India & South Asia Travel · Literary Travel
- Reading lane
- India & South Asia Travel
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Publisher Categories
Personal Memoirs
India & South Asia Travel
Literary Travel
About This Book
In the 1920s, the young J. R. Ackerley spent several months in India as the personal secretary to the maharajah of a small Indian principality. In his journals, Ackerley recorded the Maharajah's fantastically eccentric habits and riddling conversations, and the odd shambling day-to-day life of his court. Hindoo Holiday is an intimate and very funny account of an exceedingly strange place, and one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century travel literature.
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