Hindoo Holiday - An Indian Journal

Informationen zum Autor J. R. Ackerley was born in Herne Hill, Kent, in 1896 and educated at Rossall School and Magdalene College, Cambridge. In 1922 he met E.M. Forster and the two developed a close friendship. It was through Forster's influence that Ackerley left for India in 1923 to work as Private Secretary to the Marharajah of Chhokrapur, which resulted in Hindoo Holiday . He also worked as an assistant producer for the BBC and later as literary editor of the Listener. Klappentext J. R. Ackerley was born in Herne Hill, Kent, in 1896 and educated at Rossall School and Magdalene College, Cambridge. In 1922 he met E.M. Forster and the two developed a close friendship. It was through Forster's influence that Ackerley left for India in 1923 to work as Private Secretary to the Marharajah of Chhokrapur, which resulted in Hindoo Holiday . He also worked as an assistant producer for the BBC and later as literary editor of the Listener. Zusammenfassung Describes a Maharajah's eccentric habits and riddling conversations, and the odd shambling day-to-day life of his court.

Product details

• Authors: J. R. Ackerley, J.r. Ackerley, William Dalrymple
• Assisted by: William Dalrymple (Introduction), Dalrymple William (Introduction)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 26.03.2009
• EAN: 9780141189253
• ISBN: 978-0-14-118925-3
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > Asia; TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, Diaries, letters & journals, TRAVEL / Asia / India & South Asia, India, Diaries, letters and journals, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period)