Summary
While attempting to teach at an inner London comprehensive Will Randall is taken up by an elderly German woman who asks him to accompany her to India. Nothing ventured, he agrees and so begins a wonderful life-changing adventure. Set down in Puna (3 hours from Bombay) he begins work teaching English at a slum school. Most of the children are orphans or parentless (one lost his parents four years previously when his mother had let go of his hand at a railway station and he ’d boarded the wron…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349116785 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349116784 |
| Author: | Will Randall |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 30 March 2004 |
| Weight: | 190g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 127mm x 17mm |
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A refreshing read from a travel writer who hates travelling for its own sake. - INDEPENDENT
Randall kaleidoscopically evokes his changing perceptions of the country’s extraordinary perceptions of the country’s extraordinary diversity in a travelogue full of sensuous detail, humour and poignancy. - OBSERVERA delightful book in the spirit of HINDOO HOLIDAY. - CONDE NAST TRAVELLERHe does not skimp on the dark, sad nature of survival and how its dividend is brutality- despite which his version of India aspires to be elegaic as well as chaotic. - SCOTLAND ON SUNDAYAbout The Author
Will Randall
Will Randall was born in 1966 and educated in London. He is a teacher. His next book is a travel book on Botswana.
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