Hindoo Holiday
- Authors
- Ackerley, J.R.
- Publisher
- New York Review of Books
- Tags
- travel
- ISBN
- 9780940322257
- Date
- 1932-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 2.38 MB
- Lang
- en
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.