The Journals of Fanny Parkes
by
Fanny Parkes
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Fanny Parkes lived in India between 1822 and 1846 and was the ideal travel writer -courageous, indefatigably curious and determinedly independent. Her journals trace her transformation from prim memsahib to eccentric, sitar-playing Indophile, fluent in Urdu, critical of British rule and passionate...