A Strange Kind of Paradise by Sam Miller
Sam Miller investigates how the ancient Greeks, the Romans, the Chinese, Arabs, Africans, Europeans and Americans everyone really, except for Indians themselves came to imagine India. His account of the engagement between foreigners and India spans the centuries from Alexander the Great to Slumdog Millionaire.
Sam Miller has written a wonderfully witty, wise, idiosyncratic and properly hybrid book that achieves the near-impossibleIt is at once a touching personal memoir, a droll and discursive travelogue and an erudite work of literary criticism which somehow manages to be, at the same time, a hugely entertaining history of the world's often confused dialogue with South Asia over three thousand years. It is also, almost as an after-thought, a most moving love letter to India. -- William Dalrymple, author of City of Djinns
[Miller] is a congenial guide. He has a fantastically sharp eye… Amid a torrent of sparkling details, what stands out is Miller's heartfelt love for the country. -- Alex Von Tunzelmann * Evening Standard *
Delightfully eccentric… A very readable account… Miller is the master of the must-read footnote, while matching the travel writer Eric Newby in his acute descriptions of contemporary life in India. -- Victor Mallet * Financial Times *
Laconic and engaging… [An] attractive book. -- David Gilmour * Literary Review *
Fascinating. -- Tarquin Hall * Sunday Times *
[Miller] is a congenial guide. He has a fantastically sharp eye… Amid a torrent of sparkling details, what stands out is Miller's heartfelt love for the country. -- Alex Von Tunzelmann * Evening Standard *
Delightfully eccentric… A very readable account… Miller is the master of the must-read footnote, while matching the travel writer Eric Newby in his acute descriptions of contemporary life in India. -- Victor Mallet * Financial Times *
Laconic and engaging… [An] attractive book. -- David Gilmour * Literary Review *
Fascinating. -- Tarquin Hall * Sunday Times *
Sam Miller was born and brought up in London, but has spent much of his adult life in India. He is a former BBC journalist and is the author of Delhi: Adventures in a Megacity (2009), Blue Guide: India (2012) and A Strange Kind of Paradise: India Through Foreign Eyes (2014). He is also the translator of The Marvellous (But Authentic) Adventures of Captain Corcoran (2016) by Alfred Assollant.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099555865 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099555867 |
| Title | A Strange Kind of Paradise |
| Author | Sam Miller |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2015-06-04 |
| Number of pages | 432 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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