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Slowly Down the Ganges (Picador Books) by: Eric Newby List Price: £8.99 City Travel Guides Price: £6.99 You Save: £2.00 (22%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 910 EAN: 9780330280235 ISBN: 0330280236 Label: Picador Manufacturer: Picador Number Of Pages: 304 Publication Date: January 14, 1983 Publisher: Picador Studio: Picador Sales Rank: 79654 Related Items:
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 Rating: - The Himalayan Foothills/Bay of Bengal ExpressUnlike his grounded colleague, the river traveller can indulge his bent for distraction only so far. His route is more or less fixed; certainly his destination is final. And so it is to Eric Newby's credit for eliciting from this journey 300 pages worth of erudite and witty observances, for it is essentially a procession of waterborne shuttles, one ghat to the next, punctuated only by the occasional onshore foray, the function of which mostly being to secure boat and crew for the succeeding leg. I suspect, though, that Newby could glean 300 pages from a dinghy ride in a swimming pool, and that that too would be immensely readable. The archetypical harrassed traveller, at every turn events conspire to defeat or, at the least, humiliate ... Read More: |
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