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The book describes a nine month journey through
India and Nepal, focusing on the interesting
and often arresting characters encountered along
the way. The book is unusual as it is written
from a female point of view. The narrator is
an inexperienced and nervous traveler, which
makes a change of pace from accounts by the
well-travelled and intrepid.
Touching on the humour Bill Bryson infuses
his travel writing with and the narration of
Paul Theroux, also perhaps reminiscent of the
Cambodian novel Gecko Tales.
If you want to know what India is really about
I can thoroughly recommend this book. The authors
budget of ?10 a day and interest in people means
she saw so much. From eating true Indian vegetarian
food, travelling hundreds of miles on buses
and trains and staying at budget guest houses
she saw a side of India that tourists never
do. With boundless energy and an irrepressible
sense of humour she shows how to cope with all
that India can throw at you and how much it
has to offer.
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