Kevin and I in India by Frank Kusy
Acclaimed as one of the funniest and most true-to-life books ever written about India, this 'diary of disaster' became an instant bestseller upon publication in 1986, and remains many people's favourite travel diary of all time. When Frank and Kevin first met in an empty Arab airport lounge on their way to India in January 1985, it was the beginning of a friendship which would take them together across the length and breadth of the Indian sub-continent, ending up in the foothills of the Himalayas in Nepal. 'Kevin and I in India' is the unexpurgated, often outrageous, diary of their travels - from the hill-stations of the deep south to the Taj Mahal in the north, from the Goan beaches of the west to the sacred Ganges and the Bodhi Tree in the east. Full of anecdotes, observations and travellers' tales, the two Englishmen weave a crazy, erratic path through a variety of adventures and misadventures, in constant battle against officialdom, insects, heat, dust, ticket-queues and mad traffic. Here is the real India - stripped of illusion, but adorned with humour and exuberance. Here is a kaleidoscopic potpourri of fascinating sights, scenes and people, with each day of the journey more exciting, more packed with incident, than the last.
FRANK KUSY is an aspiring Buddhist and incorrigible cat lover. He wrote his first cat book when he was eight. It was called 'Jessie the Cat' and even his mum liked it. There followed 'Toad's Dilemma' (a sequel to Frank's all time fave kid's book, 'The Wind in the Willows') and a whole host of similarly derivative anthropomorphic master-pieces. Only after a short affair with journalism in his 20's did he write anything with a human being in it (the Financial Times insisted upon it), and only after he went to India, aged 30, did he stop writing about cats (he only saw one in India). Frank's first published book (1986) was a travelogue on India - now re-released on Amazon as Kevin and I in India. There followed a slew of Asian travel guides - India, Thailand, Burma, Indonesia etc - but none of them paid very much and the last one gave him a ten-year writing block: he simply couldn't decide which Delhi hotel had the best bath-room, the Taj Intercontinental or the Oberoi. Frank returned to writing after breaking his leg in 2005 - his wife nagged him into it. And the first thing they penned together was...another cat book. Thus came into being 'Ginger the Gangster Cat', the story of one fat cat's devotion to Spanish cuisine. For anyone interested, Sparky - their 5-year old perennial kitten and Ginger's shy and nervous sidekick - is real. He really is the cutest cat in the universe. Ginger himself is a composite of every stray tom-cat Frank has had in the past, absolute terrors all of them!
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| ISBN 13 | 9780957585133 |
| ISBN 10 | 0957585136 |
| Title | Kevin and I in India |
| Author | Frank Kusy |
| Series | Book 2 Of 6 In The Frank's Travel Memoir Serie |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Grinning Bandit Books |
| Year published | 2013-12-10 |
| Number of pages | 254 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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