In Clive's Footsteps by Peter Holt

In Clive's Footsteps by Peter Holt

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This travel text by a direct descendent of Clive of India, retraces his ancestor's journeys around south-eastern India, interweaving a biography of Clive and the East India Company with accounts of the author's own adventures.

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In Clive's Footsteps by Peter Holt

This travel text by a direct descendent of Clive of India retraces his ancestor's journeys around south-eastern India, interweaving a biography of Clive and the East India Company with accounts of the author's own adventures. Holt's plans often don't work out but his disasters reveal as much of India and Indians as his successes. Along the way he meets a faith-healing American Methodist minister, Bangladeshi refugees, taxi drivers, a bizarre array of fortune-tellers, museum curators, many local characters. He also visits a leper colony and is frank about the country's poverty, crowds, dirt, stench and corruption.
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ISBN 13 9780091744700
ISBN 10 0091744709
Title In Clive's Footsteps
Author Peter Holt
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Cornerstone
Year published 1990-08-02
Number of pages 265
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.