Slowly Down the Ganges. by Eric Newby
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780007367887 (0007367880)
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
This is an account of the author's journey (accompanied by his long-suffering but also adventurous wife) down the Ganges in 1963, in a series of small boats. Newby's a humorist, and one of his favorite tropes is likening something he sees to a pedestrian English sight like a hesitant bather on a pie...