Slowly Down the Ganges

Slowly Down the Ganges
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 298
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ISBN-10 : 0330280236
ISBN-13 : 9780330280235
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Slowly Down the Ganges by : Eric Newby

Download or read book Slowly Down the Ganges written by Eric Newby and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1983 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eric Newby has never been bedeviled by practicality. Hence this 1,200-mile journey down the Ganges River, which the author undertook in 1963 in the company of his wife and an ever-changing crew of Indian retainers. What moved him to take the trip? Partly it was the memory of his military service in India more than two decades before. And as he confesses, Newby has a lifelong and perhaps congenital love of rivers: "I like exploring them. I like the way in which they grow deeper and wider and dirtier but always, however dirty they become, managing to retain some of the beauty with which they were born." Few rivers grow quite as dirty as the Ganges, which also goes by such nicknames as Atula ("Peerless"), Savitri ("Stimulator"), and Bhinna-brahmanda-darpini ("Taking pride in the broken egg of Brahma"). And few accounts of this mighty waterway could possibly be as acute and hilarious as Slowly down the Ganges, which Newby first published in 1966.


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