| Description |
xvi, 335 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
Vintage departures |
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Vintage departures.
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| Contents |
from Hindoo holiday / J.R. Ackerley -- "Notes mailed at Nagercoil" / Paul Bowles -- "Shamdev: the wolf-boy" / Bruce Chatwin -- from Desert places / Robyn Davidson -- from Abinger harvest / E.M. Forster -- from Indian journals / Allen Ginsberg -- from "Childhood of the magician" / Hermann Hesse -- from Abandon / Pico Iyer -- "Two more under the Indian sun" / Ruth Prawer Jhabvala -- from Kim / Rudyard Kipling -- from Tristes Tropiques / Claude Lévi-Strauss -- from Anti-memoirs / André Malraux -- from The snow leopard / Peter Matthiessen -- from A writer's notebook / W. Somerset Maugham -- from Portrait of India / Ved Mehta -- "Mrs. Gupta never rang" / Jan Morris -- from An area of darkness / V.S. Naipaul -- "Shooting an elephant" / George Orwell -- from The scent of India / Pier Paolo Pasolini -- from A tale of two gardens / Octavio Paz -- from Blindfold games / Alan Ross -- from The jewel in the crown / Paul Scott -- from The great railway bazaar / Paul Theroux -- from Following the equator / Mark Twain -- from Creation / Gore Vidal |
| Subject |
India -- Literary collections.
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India -- Description and travel.
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| Added Author |
Mishra, Pankaj.
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| ISBN |
0375727450 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780375727450 paperback alkaline paper |
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