An Indian Love Affair
A Septuagenerian Odyssey from Taj to Taj
$35.00
- Paperback
201 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2016
Summary
In the early 1960s, travel writer Simon Gandolfi drove a VW from England to Goa where he rented a bungalow on the beach at Calangute. It was there that Gandolfi met and loved Vanessa, and explored much of the subcontinent with her.
The 2008 terrorist attack on the Taj Hotel in Mumbai prompted Gandolfi to re-explore the subcontinent on a small motorcycle. Collecting a Honda 125 from the factory outside Delhi, he rode for six months and 12,000 kilometres. He rediscovers the rented bunga…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781910050811 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1910050814 |
| Author: | Simon Gandolfi |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | Arcadia Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 201 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2016 |
| Weight: | 209g |
| Dimensions: | 200mm x 130mm x 20mm |
| Series: | Old Man on a Bike |
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About The Author
Simon Gandolfi
Simon was born in London in 1933. After military service as a subaltern in the 16th/5th Lancers, early friendships with the co-directors of the movie, Performance introduced him to the wider world of the arts, and actor Antony Quail encouraged him to write his first novel, Even With The Shutters Closed. He has been privileged in making writing and travel his primary occupations and has been fortunate in living in and experiencing a variety of cultures: Spain/Ibiza, Greece, France, Afghanistan and the Indian subcontinent, the Dominican Republic and, finally, Cuba for four years before returning to his cottage in Herefordshire.
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