Chasing The Monsoon: A Modern Pilgrimage Through India - Softcover

Frater, Alexander

 
9780330433136: Chasing The Monsoon: A Modern Pilgrimage Through India
Softcover
ISBN 10: 033043313X ISBN 13: 9780330433136
Verlag: Pan Macmillan, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

On 20th May the Indian summer monsoon will begin to envelop the country in two great wet arms, one coming from the east, the other from the west. They are united over central India around 10th July, a date that can be calculated within seven or eight days.

Alexander Frater aims to follow the monsoon, staying sometimes behind it, sometimes in front of it, and everywhere watching the impact of this extraordinary phenomenon. During the anxious period of waiting, the weather forecaster is king, consulted by pie-crested cockatoos, and a joyful period ensues: there is a period of promiscuity, and scandals proliferate.

Frater's journey takes him to Bangkok and the cowboy town on the Thai-Malaysian border to Rangoon and Akyab in Burma (where the front funnels up between the mountains and the sea). His fascinating narrative reveals the exotic, often startling, discoveries of an ambitious and irresistibly romantic adventurer.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Alexander Frater has contributed to various UK publications - Miles Kington called him 'the funniest man who wrote for Punch since the war' - and as chief travel correspondent of the Observer, he won an unprecedented number of British Press Travel Awards. He lives in London though, whenever time and money allow, is likely to be found skulking deep in the hot, wet tropics.

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Verlag
Pan Macmillan
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
033043313X
ISBN 13 
9780330433136
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
288
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