Vacación Hindú
- Authors
- Ackerley, J.R.
- Publisher
- Pre-textos
- Tags
- biography , history , classics , humour , prose_contemporary , travel
- ISBN
- 9788481914597
- Date
- 1932-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.26 MB
- Lang
- es
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.
About the Author:
J.R Ackerley (1896-1967) was for many years the literary editor of the BBC magazine The Listener. A respected mentor to such younger writers as Christopher Isherwood and W.H. Auden, he was also a longtime friend and literary associate of E.M. Forster. His works include three memoirs, Hindoo Holiday , My Dog Tulip , and My Father and Myself , and a novel, We Think the World of You.