Slowly Down the Ganges (Textplus)

Newby, Eric

ISBN 10: 0340499753 / ISBN 13: 9780340499757

Published by Hodder & Stoughton Educational Division, 1989

Seller Inventory # E-9780340499757-2-2

Synopsis:

The titles in the "Textplus" series, designed to reflect the changing nature of English Literature at advanced post-GCSE level, offer the complete text with a specially commissioned introduction and compact background notes placing the work in historical and critical context. Together, these components are intended to open up the text for students, allowing them to plot their own course of study, to plan extended projects, to compare writers' perspectives on similar themes and to relate works to key social and historical phenomena.

Review:

'All the dusty enchantment and the recurrent dottiness of India - its exasperating charm - are in these pages' Eric Linklater

'Any book by Eric Newby is an event' Len Deighton

'Impossible to describe adequately the flavour of this delicious story ... vintage Newby delicately salted with “The Wind in the Willows” and “Three Men in a Boat”' Guardian

'No journey into an unmapped interior to carry the word or find a lost explorer was more obstinately seen through to its end than this do-it-yourself pleasure trip ... Mr Newby has fine descriptive gifts and a deft touch in casual portraiture' Times Literary Supplement

'One of the finest and certainly the funniest of British travel writers' Sunday Times

Bibliographic Details

Title: Slowly Down the Ganges (Textplus)
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Educational Division
Publication Date: 1989
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very good