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Jonathan Cape Ltd, London 1991 VG/VG near fine save for slight edge-rounding to dj on spine. not price-clipped. no inscriptions. clean attractive copy. well bound. 1st edition. Norman Lewis has already written two great travel books on South-east Asia: A Dragon Apparent and Golden Earth, and now he completes his trilogy with A Goddess in the Stones. It was Lewis's belief that the old India described by early travellers remained to be re-descovered off the beaten track, and so he undertook a journey of 2,500 miles in search of this, starting in Bihar

Vantage Press, UK, 1997 VG. no dj. no inscriptions. lovely clean copy. 1st. British. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The English subcontinent has produced some of the world's greatest writer's, and a body of literature unsurpassed in its sustained imagination, impassioned lyricism and sparkling tragi-comedy. Now Salman Rushdie and Elizabeth West have collected together the finest Indian writing of the last fifty years. Published to coincide with the anniversary of India's independence, it is an anthology of extraordinary range and vigour, as exciting and varied as the land that inspired it