{"product_id":"hindoo-holiday","title":"Hindoo Holiday","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the 1920s, the young J. R. Ackerley spent several months in India as the personal secretary to the maharajah of a small Indian principality. In his journals, Ackerley recorded the Maharajah’s fantastically eccentric habits and riddling conversations, and the odd shambling day-to-day life of his court. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHindoo Holiday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an intimate and very funny account of an exceedingly strange place, and one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century travel literature.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"display:\" none\u003e by J.R. Ackerley, introduction by Eliot Weinberger \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":55690362290249,"sku":"9780940322257","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0981\/2026\/9897\/files\/Hindoo-Holiday.jpg?v=1779095080","url":"https:\/\/yyg0cd-80.myshopify.com\/products\/hindoo-holiday","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}