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Author | : Eric Newby |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Ganges River (India and Bangladesh) |
ISBN | : 9780330280235 |
Eric Newby has never been bedeviled by practicality. Hence this 1,200-mile journey down the Ganges River, which the author undertook in 1963 in the company of his wife and an ever-changing crew of Indian retainers. What moved him to take the trip? Partly it was the memory of his military service in India more than two decades before. And as he confesses, Newby has a lifelong and perhaps congenital love of rivers: "I like exploring them. I like the way in which they grow deeper and wider and dirtier but always, however dirty they become, managing to retain some of the beauty with which they were born." Few rivers grow quite as dirty as the Ganges, which also goes by such nicknames as Atula ("Peerless"), Savitri ("Stimulator"), and Bhinna-brahmanda-darpini ("Taking pride in the broken egg of Brahma"). And few accounts of this mighty waterway could possibly be as acute and hilarious as Slowly down the Ganges, which Newby first published in 1966.
Author | : Eric Newby |
Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2013-02-21 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0007508212 |
‘Slowly Down the Ganges’ is seen as a vintage Newby masterpiece, alongside ‘A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush’ and ‘Love and War in the Apennines’. Told with Newby's self-deprecating humour and wry attention to detail, this is a classic of the genre and a window into an enchanting piece of history.
Author | : HarperCollins Publishers Limited |
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Release | : 1988-11-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780002727709 |
Author | : Ilija Trojanow |
Publisher | : Armchair Traveller |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-03-10 |
Genre | : Ganges River Valley (India and Bangladesh) |
ISBN | : 9781906598914 |
"A lyrical homage to India's holiest, moodiest, foulest river...Trojanow is the perfect mix of insider and outsider... It is a treasure of a book, a must-have for anyone spending time on the Ganges and wanting to get to know her better."- Financial Times "Funny, shocking, and always interesting."- The Spectator Along the Ganges was voted one of the greatest travel books of all time by Conde Nast Traveler by a jury including Gore Vidal and Paul Theroux.The River Ganges has a thousand names, and Hindu priests thought it a sin to call her a river at all. She is a goddess, the source of the world. Her waters are holy, healing, and still sold to Hindus the world over. Ilija Tojanow, an international best-selling author, traveled along the Ganges from the source, where it breaks free from the ice in the Himalayas, to the great cities. Along the way he visited the great Hindu festivals and talked to those who warn of ecological disaster caused bygigantic dams. This colorful travelogue describes a country caught between ancient traditions and astonishing modernity, and the holy river that crosses it for hundreds of miles. Ilija Trojanow is the author Mumbai to Mecca (Haus Publishing) and the best-selling novel The Collector of Worlds, for which he was awarded the Leipzig Book Fair Prize.
Author | : Dennison Berwick |
Publisher | : Dennison Berwick |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9780713719680 |
Author | : Eric Newby |
Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2013-02-21 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0007508158 |
This book is a lush and beautiful memoir of a very special house and a superb recreation of a bygone era.
Author | : Eric Newby |
Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2013-02-21 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0007508204 |
'You've had some pretty crazy ideas in your life, Newby, but this is the craziest.' Grandmother Wanda Newby was exasperated after continuous rain, snow, and gales that knocked from her bike. Twice.
Author | : Eric Newby |
Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2013-02-21 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0007404190 |
An illustrated ebook documenting the hugely varied and always entertaining career of one of Britain’s best-loved travel writers.
Author | : Asha Miró |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Adoptees |
ISBN | : 0743286723 |
Adopted from India when she was six and raised in Spain, the author takes a heart-wrenching trip back to India as an adult to uncover her roots and discover a sister she never knew.
Author | : Eric Newby |
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Genre | : Ganges River (India and Bangladesh) |
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