A Strange Kind of Paradise: India Through Foreign Eyes [Audiobook] download free by Sam Miller
- Listen audiobook: A Strange Kind of Paradise: India Through Foreign Eyes
- Author: Sam Miller
- Release date: 2014/4/28
- Publisher: VINTAGE PUBLISHING
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Travel and Holiday Guides
- ISBN: 9780224093415
- Rating: 9.75 of 10
- Votes: 317
- Review by: Trenton Kinder
- Review rating: 9.58 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/27
- Duration: 5H19M6S in 256 kbps (86.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-09
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG4, WMA, FLAC, MP3, WAV, AIFF (compression BZ2, RAR, TZO, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 432
- Includes a PDF summary of 40 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 28M52S (8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: A Strange Kind of Paradise is an exploration of India's past and present, from the perspective of a foreigner who has lived in India for many years. Sam Miller investigates how the ancient Greeks, the Romans, the Chinese, Arabs, Africans, Europeans and Americans - everyone really, except for Indians themselves - came to imagine India. His account of the engagement between foreigners and India spans the centuries from Alexander the Great to Slumdog Millionaire. It features, among many others, Thomas the Apostle, the Chinese monk Xuanzang, Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta, Vasco da Gama, Babur, Clive of India, several Victorian pornographers, Mark Twain, E. M. Forster, Allen Ginsberg, the Beatles and Steve Jobs. Interspersed between these tales is the story of Sam Miller's own 25-year-long love affair with India. The result is a spellbinding, 2,500-year-long journey through Indian history, culture and society, in the company of an author who informs, educates and entertains in equal measure, as he travels in the footsteps of foreign chroniclers, exposes some of their fabulous fantasies and overturns long-held stereotypes about race, identity and migration.At once scholarly and thought-provoking, delightfully eccentric and laugh-out-loud funny, this book is destined to become a much-loved classic.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Travel Writing
- Download servers: Hotfile, FileServe, Microsoft OneDrive, Torrent Funk, Torrent, JumpShare. Compressed in BZ2, RAR, TZO, ZIP
- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 19.86 USD
- Dimensions: 143x217x43mm
- Weight: 648g
- Printed by: Jonathan Cape Ltd
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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