Hindoo Holiday

Nonfiction, Travel, Asia, India, Adventure & Literary Travel, Biography & Memoir
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Author: J. R. Ackerley ISBN: 9781590175248
Publisher: New York Review Books Publication: October 31, 2012
Imprint: NYRB Classics Language: English
Author: J. R. Ackerley
ISBN: 9781590175248
Publisher: New York Review Books
Publication: October 31, 2012
Imprint: NYRB Classics
Language: English

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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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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