Hindoo Holiday
Author | : J. R. Ackerley |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2012-10-31 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781590175248 |
ISBN-13 | : 1590175247 |
Rating | : 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Download or read book Hindoo Holiday written by J. R. Ackerley and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.