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J. R. Ackerley
Hindoo Holiday [EPUB ebook]
An Indian Journal

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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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Language English ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9780141900032 ● Publisher Penguin Books Ltd ● Published 2009 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2267970 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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