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Hindoo Holiday

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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.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780940322257
  • ISBN-10: 0940322250
  • Publisher: New York Review of Books
  • Publish Date: January 2000
  • Dimensions: 8.05 x 5.01 x 0.74 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.7 pounds
  • Page Count: 320

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