Slowly down the Ganges
Newby, Eric2011
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On his forty-forth birthday, Eric Newby sets out on an incredible journey: to travel the 1,200-mile length of India's holy river. In a misguided attempt to keep him out of trouble, Wanda, his life-long travel companion and wife, is to be his fellow boatwoman. Their plan is to begin in the great plain of Hardwar and finish in the Bay of Bengal, but the journey almost immediately becomes markedly slower and more treacherous than either had imagined - running aground sixty-three times in the first six days. Travelling in a variety of unstable boats, as well as by rail, bus and bullock cart, and resting at sandbanks and remote villages, the Newbys encounter engaging characters and glorious mishaps, including the non-existence of large-scale maps of the country, a realisation that questions of pure 'logic' cause grave offense and, on one occasion, the only person in sight for miles is an old man who is himself unsure where he is. Newby's only consolation: on a river, if you go downstream, you're sure to end up somewhere...
Main title:
Slowly down the Ganges / Eric Newby.
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Edition:
HarperPress pbk. ed.
Imprint:
London : HarperPress, 2011, c1983.
Collation:
xiv, 382 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1966.
ISBN:
9780007367887
Dewey class:
915.410442915.41
Language:
English
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BRN:
167593
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kathleen Syme Carlton | -Travel | TRAVEL 915.41 NEWB | On reserve shelf at Library at the Dock |
| Library at the Dock | -Travel | TRAVEL 915.41 NEWB | Available |