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The Collector's Bag: Travellers' Tales from India and Elsewhere Hardcover - 1993
by R. V. Vernede; Raymond V. Vernede
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- Title The Collector's Bag: Travellers' Tales from India and Elsewhere
- Author R. V. Vernede; Raymond V. Vernede
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 267
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Colin Smythe, Gerrards Cross, UK
- Date September 1993
- ISBN 9780861403523 / 0861403525
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- Cultural Region: Ireland
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95202917
- Dewey Decimal Code 823.914
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Great Britain: Colin Smythe, 1992. Hardback. Some writing in margin in pen to page 132. This fascinating collection of stories is based on the author's experiences as an Indian Civil Service Deputy Commissioner, or 'Collector' in the Himalayan district of Garhwal, an area about the same size as Northern ireland, with a population of 350,000 in which actual fact stands besides fiction, and where, if the story is not true, in whole or in part, stil gives a true insight into the life and mores of the people in that part of the subcontinent. Love, murder, rogues, humour, revenge, trial by ordeal, blood feuds, Chinese-Tibetan plans for the invasion of india are featured, as well as an account of the author's meeting with Jawarhal Nehru. There are also two other tales, one set in the Middle East and the other in Central Europe. The author has splendidly evoked a way of life of half a century ago, but much ot it could still exist today: the world changes very little in the depths of the…
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Gerrards Cross, UK: Colin Smythe. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. 0861403525 . Only slight wear. ; A bright, solid book, DJ in Mylar. ; 1.18 x 8.58 x 5.51 Inches; 267 pages; Collecting stories from experience in the hills of India makes for a good read. But, when fact and fiction are intertwined, and reality becomes a mixture of the two, the words become spellbinding."" - Small Press. ""Born in Vevey, Switzerland, R.V. Vernède entered the Indian Civil Service in 1928 and was posted to Uttar Pradesh (now perhaps best known as the state encompassing the Temple at Ayodyha). In 1992, over a half-century later, Vernède published [this], a collection of stories largely based on those experiences."" - Publishers Weekly. Love, murder, rogues, humor, revenge, trial by ordeal, blood feuds, Chinese-Tibetan plans for the invasion of India are featured, as is an account of the author's meeting with Jawaharlal Nehru. .
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Gerrards Cross, UK: Colin Smythe. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. 0861403525 . Only slight wear. Short closed tear top back fore edge. ; A bright, solid book, DJ in Mylar. Errata slip laid in. ; 1.18 x 8.58 x 5.51 Inches; 267 pages; Collecting stories from experience in the hills of India makes for a good read. But, when fact and fiction are intertwined, and reality becomes a mixture of the two, the words become spellbinding."" - Small Press. ""Born in Vevey, Switzerland, R.V. Vernède entered the Indian Civil Service in 1928 and was posted to Uttar Pradesh (now perhaps best known as the state encompassing the Temple at Ayodyha). In 1992, over a half-century later, Vernède published [this], a collection of stories largely based on those experiences."" - Publishers Weekly. Love, murder, rogues, humor, revenge, trial by ordeal, blood feuds, Chinese-Tibetan plans for the invasion of India are featured, as is an…
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