Days and Nights on the Grand Trunk Road

by Weller, Anthony

• ISBN13: 9781569247518
• ISBN10: 156924751X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-08-01
• Publisher: Marlowe & Co

Summary

Provides a travel narrative for a journey along one of the oldest and most perilous roads in the world through Pakistan and India

Table of Contents

1 Calcutta	1	(21)
2 Foreign Survivors	22	(17)
3 The Usual Paperwork	39	(10)
4 Followers of the Mountain	49	(16)
5 Where the Truckers Eat	65	(7)
6 Under the Branches of Wisdom	72	(15)
7 Tomb of A Lion	87	(6)
8 The Sacred City	93	(9)
9 Of God and Kipling	102	(12)
10 Kanpur	114	(13)
11 An Ice-Storm of Architecture	127	(16)
12 Krishna's Playpen	143	(18)
13 Delhi	161	(24)
14 Haryana Holidays	185	(9)
15 Toward the Punjab	194	(10)
16 The Maharajah and the Wedding	204	(20)
17 The Golden Temple	224	(23)
18 Order at the Border	247	(15)
19 Where the Kites Come Down	262	(22)
20 Any Friend of Flashman's Is A Friend of Mine	284	(15)
21 To the Hills	299	(18)
22 The Piccadilly of Central Asia	317	(19)
23 The Wild West of the East	336	(19)
24 Up the Khyber	355	(22)
Acknowledgments	377	(2)
Further Reading	379	(3)
Quotes	382