Hindoo Holiday: An Indian Journal (New York Review Books Classics) - Softcover

Ackerley, J. R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0940322250 ISBN 13: 9780940322257

Publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc, 2000

Synopsis

Hindoo Holiday 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.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0940322250
• ISBN 13: 9780940322257
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320