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Title: HINDOO HOLIDAY
AN INDIAN JOURNAL
By: J. R. Ackerley, William Dalrymple
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0141189258
ISBN 13: 9780141189253
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Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
Pub. date: 26 March, 2009
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Pages: 288
Description: Describes a Maharajah's eccentric habits and riddling conversations, and the odd shambling day-to-day life of his court.
Synopsis: 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.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Returns: Returnable
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