{"product_id":"hindoo-holiday-an-indian-journal-penguin-twentieth-century-classics","title":"Hindoo Holiday: An Indian Journal (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Author:\u003cbr\u003eJ.R Ackerley (1896-1967) was for many years the literary editor of the BBC magazine The Listener. A respected mentor to such younger writers as Christopher Isherwood and W.H. Auden, he was also a longtime friend and literary associate of E.M. Forster. His works include three memoirs, Hindoo Holiday, My Dog Tulip, and My Father and Myself, and a novel, We Think the World of You.","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Fair \/ a3255e8c871","offer_id":48067829301399,"sku":"9780140187946-FR-000140001","price":6.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/9002\/8951\/files\/9780140187946.jpg?v=1785050615","url":"https:\/\/thriftreads.co.nz\/products\/hindoo-holiday-an-indian-journal-penguin-twentieth-century-classics","provider":"Thrift Reads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}