Author's e-books - India. Page - 2
(Doubleday, 1983)
Reviewers called it the best novel on India since Kipling. An immediate European bestseller, optioned by Indian/German producers who commissioned a six-hour mini-series, then Canadian producers with BBC.
Based on real people (ca. 1620) – an English “sea dog” shoots his way through Portuguese gallons and into an Indian port to open trade. Once on land, there’re tiger hunts, war elephants, sensual music, drugs, and sacred lovemaking.
Of all the long-distance trips we have taken together, the 14-day trip to Rajasthan was most impressive. We covered about 2500 km back with a rickety bus and were taken to numerous attractions. Highlights were the comfortable nights in magnificent maharaja palaces and in first class hotels. We were able to get over the efforts of the day quickly. Our tour started in New Delhi and - after visiting the magnificent Taj Mahal - we came back there again.
I had been traveling for weeks and never seen the problem with the food in India. Personally I thought it was great. Even the meat and food from the rickshaws. What could go wrong? I had come to the conclusion my steady diet of Imodium had made me immune to anything Indian food could throw at me.
(Doubleday, 1983)
Reviewers called it the best novel on India since Kipling. An immediate European bestseller, optioned by Indian/German producers who commissioned a six-hour mini-series, then Canadian producers with BBC.
Based on real people (ca. 1620) – an English “sea dog” shoots his way through Portuguese gallons and into an Indian port to open trade. Once on land, there’re tiger hunts, war elephants, sensual music, drugs, and sacred lovemaking.
Of all the long-distance trips we have taken together, the 14-day trip to Rajasthan was most impressive. We covered about 2500 km back with a rickety bus and were taken to numerous attractions. Highlights were the comfortable nights in magnificent maharaja palaces and in first class hotels. We were able to get over the efforts of the day quickly. Our tour started in New Delhi and - after visiting the magnificent Taj Mahal - we came back there again.
I had been traveling for weeks and never seen the problem with the food in India. Personally I thought it was great. Even the meat and food from the rickshaws. What could go wrong? I had come to the conclusion my steady diet of Imodium had made me immune to anything Indian food could throw at me.