Hindoo holiday : an Indian journal /
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. 'Hindoo Holiday' is an intimate and very funny account of an exceedingly strange place, and one of the masterpieces of 20th century travel literatu...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Penguin,
2009.
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| Series: | Penguin classics.
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| Summary: | 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. 'Hindoo Holiday' is an intimate and very funny account of an exceedingly strange place, and one of the masterpieces of 20th century travel literature. Published by Chatto and Windus in 1932, it is written in the form of (and based on) a journal which Ackerley kept during his five-month engagement as secretary to Vishwanath Singh, Maharajah of Chhatarpur between December 1923 and May 1924. |
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| Item Description: | The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture. |
| Physical Description: | 276 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780141189253 0141189258 |