- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (29 Jan 1987)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140095691
- ISBN-13: 978-0140095692
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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40,907 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #38 in Books > Travel & Holiday > Countries & Regions > Asia > India
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James Cameron was no stranger to India when he travelled there with his wife in 1972. His work as journalist and his new family brought him a closer understanding of the country he already loved. He also met new people, travelled to unfamilar areas and witnessed the changes that Independence had brought. With this fresh eye he saw kindness and corruption, beauty and filth, impossible bureaucracy and profound humanity. This text tells of his experiences.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A journey into the psyche of India. A very human perspective that makes one feel one is there. A first hand account of a real place with real people. He expresses profound exasperation at polices of governments that sacrifice the lives of many thousands of ordinary people in the pursuit of self-interest, expediency and power politics. He met and talked to Gandhi, a very lucky man. He admits in a round about way of being a little bit left of centre, though he was labelled a communist when he was a young man, not a lefty more a humanist who sees and writes about the world around him. He could be accused of being the English man abroad, but I think that would be unfair to say the least. Please read it.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Had read the book many years before and had remembered some of the anecdotes it contained. Therefore took the opportunity to revist the volume.
It arrived quickly and in excellent condition and it has been really worthwhile rereading it.
It arrived quickly and in excellent condition and it has been really worthwhile rereading it.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Passionate about India!
5 Jun 2001
Format:Hardcover
Author is British journalist James Cameron (the man who heard the famous words of a Gandhi staffer, to the effect that it costs a fortune to keep Gandhiji in his simple lifestyle).
This short but meaty book is a loving portrait of a marvelous country. Cameron uses the incident of a horrific car accident he suffered in Bangladesh to tie together his own sense of mortality and India's great endurance.
Pace can be a little rough at times, but that is the only detraction from this beautiful, appreciative look at India and its foibles, humanity, grace, sufferings. His treatment of conversations (with little hints of well-observed Indglish) are a joy to read. Many tender and thoughtful passages about mankind, but it's really a very personal memoir of Cameron's ongoing yet troubled love affair with a nation.
Indispensible part of any India-phile's library, great pre-departure (or take-along) reading for anyone going there.
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