Hindoo Holiday

Author/Contributor(s):	Ackerley, J. R.; Weinberger, Eliot
Publisher:	NYRB Classics
Date:	1/31/2000
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.