{"product_id":"hindoo-holiday-isbn-9780940322257","title":"Hindoo Holiday","description":"In the 1920s, the young J. R. Ackerley spent several months in India as the personal secretary to the maharajah of a small Indian principality. In his journals, Ackerley recorded the Maharajah's fantastically eccentric habits and riddling conversations, and the odd shambling day-to-day life of his court. \u003ci\u003eHindoo Holiday\u003c\/i\u003e is an intimate and very funny account of an exceedingly strange place, and one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century travel literature.\u003cb\u003eJ. R. Ackerley \u003c\/b\u003e(1896-1967) was for many years the literary editor of the BBC magazine \u003ci\u003eThe Listener\u003c\/i\u003e. His works include three memoirs, \u003ci\u003eHindoo Holiday\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMy Dog Tulip\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMy Father and Myself\u003c\/i\u003e, and a novel, \u003ci\u003eWe Think the World of You\u003c\/i\u003e (all available as New York Review Books).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEliot Weinberger \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of three collections of essays: \u003ci\u003eOutside Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWorks on Paper\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e Karmic Traces\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also the editor and translator of the \u003ci\u003eCollected Poems \u003c\/i\u003eof Octavio Paz and the \u003ci\u003eSelected Non-fictions \u003c\/i\u003eof Jorge Luis Borges.","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302348574949,"sku":"NP9780940322257","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780940322257.jpg?v=1767729068","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/hindoo-holiday-isbn-9780940322257","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}