by J. R. Ackerley · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140095074
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«Hindoo Holiday: An Indian Journal» is J. R. Ackerley's travel diary, published by Penguin in paperback (288 pages, in English).
In the 1920s, the young J. R. Ackerley spent a few months in India as secretary to the maharaja of a small princely state. In his diaries he recorded the sovereign's eccentricities, his enigmatic conversations, and the chaotic life of the court. An intimate and amusing portrait of an unusual place, considered a classic of travel literature.
Work originally published in 1932; this edition belongs to the Penguin Travel Library collection.
For readers of travel literature, memoirs, and portraits of eccentric characters set in India.
