Hindoo Holiday: An Indian Journal - Couverture souple

Ackerley, J. R.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0671707051 ISBN 13 : 9780671707057

Editeur : Poseidon Pr, 1990

Synopsis

Book by Ackerley J R

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

J. R. Ackerley (1896-1967) was for many years the literary editor of the BBC magazine The Listener. His works include three memoirs, Hindoo Holiday, My Dog Tulip, and My Father and Myself, and a novel, We Think the World of You (all available as New York Review Books).

Eliot Weinberger is the author of three collections of essays: Outside Stories, Works on Paper, and Karmic Traces. He is also the editor and translator of the Collected Poems of Octavio Paz and the Selected Non-fictions of Jorge Luis Borges.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Poseidon Pr
• Date d'édition: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0671707051
• ISBN 13: 9780671707057
• Reliure: Broché