Hindoo Holiday [Paperback]

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 Holidayis an intimate and very funny account of an exceedingly strange place, and one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century travel literature.J. R. Ackerley(1896-1967) was for many years the literary editor of the BBC magazine The Listener. His works include three memoirs, Hindoo Holiday, My Dog Tulip, and My Father and Myself, and a novel, We Think the World of You (all available as New York Review Books).

Eliot Weinbergeris the author of three collections of essays:Outside Stories,Works on Paper, andKarmic Traces. He is also the editor and translator of theCollected Poemsof Octavio Paz and theSelected Non-fictionsof Jorge Luis Borges.US