Hindoo Holiday: An Indian Journal

✍ Scribed by Ackerley, J R

• Book ID: 107350335
• Publisher: New York Review Books
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 397 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

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.