ISBN10: 0141007648, ISBN13: 9780141007649, [publisher: New Delhi : Penguin] Softcover guter Zustand mit Gebrauchsspuren V65 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 800 21,6 x 14,0 x 1,9 cm, Taschenbuch
[Aarbergen, Germany] [Publication Year: 2004]

New Delhi: Penguin. Near Fine. Date: 2004. Softcover. 0141007648 . About new book, unmarked, in crisp card covers with french folds. ; 369 pages . 2004. Penguin ISBN 0141007648 9780141007649 [CA]

ISBN10: 0141007648, ISBN13: 9780141007649, [publisher: New Delhi : Penguin] Softcover xii, 369 p. ; Zustand: Exemplar in gutem Zustand, Ränder und / oder Cover etwas berieben. Text / Sprache: Englisch , edited by Dom Moraes , The Penguin Book of Indian Journeys brings together pieces by some of the best contemporary writers in the English language. Travel writers-Indian and foreign, as well as compulsive wanderers without a home-engage with the comforts and the chaos, the convictions and the contradictions of modern, independent India. R.K. Narayan does a leisurely tour of Karnataka, taking the emerald route up and down the Ghats; V.S. Naipaul rages through hot, crowded and apathetic New Delhi; and Vikram Seth flies back, after months of hitch-hiking in strange lands, to familiars, respite and Delhi customs. Ruskin Bond explores the laid-back Agra of the 1960s in the shadow of the unchanging Taj; and midnight's -child Salman Rushdie returns to the land of his birth to try and answer a riddle: Does India exist? At the Kumbh Mela, the world's biggest religious festival, Mark Tully meets a 300- year-old sadhu. In the forests of the Western Ghats, Abraham Verghese hopes to run into the brigandVeerappan. Jan Morris rides the toy train to 'the most celebrated of Indian hill stations' that is 'all smallness'. And Bruce Chatwin hits the road with the entourage of the post-Emergency, out-of-power Indira Gandhi to see 'Madam in action'. ...
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New Delhi Penguin 2004 Softcover Near Fine 0141007648. About new book, unmarked, in crisp card covers with french folds.; 369 pages.

ISBN10: 0141007648, ISBN13: 9780141007649, [publisher: Penguin] Softcover Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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