Description

Franklin Watts [Published Date: 1969]. Hardcover, 56 pp. First American Edition. Very good in good+ dust jacket. Illustrated Paper over Boards have light bumping to edges and corners and light overall scuffing. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a few small nicks and light creasing along edges. Light overall scuffing and aging to jacket as well. Price clipped. Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Mostly color illustrations throughout. [From front jacket flap] If you were invited to spend a holiday in India, what would you most wish to see? Peta said at once, 'an elephant and a maharaja,' and her father, William Papas, said 'tea gardens, palaces, towns, mountains, people - above all people.' Both of them saw all that they had hoped for, and more, on their journey through India. In this letter home to his son, Papas gives a vivid personal impression of this great land and its people; and here and there Peta takes time off from her intense enjoyment of seeing so many strange and exciting things for the first time to throw in a few sketches and an unfinished note of her own. Flying by jet round the monsoon clouds, driving by bullock cart through the picturesque villages, or rushing by car through the crowded streets of Calcutta, we share with Papas and his daughter their enthusiasm and wonder for this vast, fascinating country.