. . . . . . . . . . . "Eric Newby has never been bedeviled by practicality. Hence this 1,200-mile journey down the Ganges River, which the author undertook in 1963 in the company of his wife and an ever-changing crew of Indian retainers. What moved him to take the trip? Partly it was the memory of his military service in India more than two decades before. And as he confesses, Newby has a lifelong and perhaps congenital love of rivers: \"I like exploring them. I like the way in which they grow deeper and wider and dirtier but always, however dirty they become, managing to retain some of the beauty with which they were born.\" Few rivers grow quite as dirty as the Ganges, which also goes by such nicknames as Atula (\"Peerless\"), Savitri (\"Stimulator\"), and Bhinna-brahmanda-darpini (\"Taking pride in the broken egg of Brahma\"). And few accounts of this mighty waterway could possibly be as acute and hilarious as Slowly down the Ganges, which Newby first published in 1966."@en . . . . "Slowly down the Ganges [Chinese ed.]" . . . . . . . . . . "千里下恆河" . "Electronic books" . "Slowly Down the Ganges"@en . "'Slowly Down the Ganges' is seen as a vintage Newby masterpiece, alongside 'A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush' and 'Love and War in the Apennines'. Told with Newby's self-deprecating humour and wry attention to detail, this is a classic of the genre and a window into an enchanting piece of history. On his forty-forth birthday, Eric Newby sets out on an incredible journey: to travel the 1,200-mile length of India's holy river. In a misguided attempt to keep him out of trouble, Wanda, his life-long travel companion and wife, is to be his fellow boatwoman. Their plan is to begin in the great plain of Hardwar and finish in the Bay of Bengal, but the journey almost immediately becomes markedly slower and more treacherous than either had imagined - running aground sixty-three times in the first six days. Travelling in a variety of unstable boats, as well as by rail, bus and bullock cart, and resting at sandbanks and remote villages, the Newbys encounter engaging characters and glorious mishaps, including the non-existence of large-scale maps of the country, a realisation that questions of pure 'logic' cause grave offense and, on one occasion, the only person in sight for miles is an old man who is himself unsure where he is. Newby's only consolation: on a river, if you go downstream, you're sure to end up somewhere'" . . . . . . . . . . "Slowly down the Ganges"@en . "Slowly down the Ganges" . . . . "Slowly down the ganges. [Illustrated and with maps.]"@en . . . "Qian li xia Heng He : slow down the Ganges" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Langzaam de Ganges af" . . . . . "Slowly down the Ganges : (2. impr.)" . . . "Langzaam de Ganges af : 1200 mijl de heilige rivier van India stroomafwaarts, van Hardwar naar de Golf van Bengalen" . . "Qian li xia heng he" . "Slowly down the ganges" . . . . . . . . . "India" . . "India." . "India." . . . . "Ganges River Region (India and Bangladesh)" . . "Ganges River Region (India)" . . "Ganges River (India and Bangladesh)" . . "TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues." . . "Newby, Eric, 1919-." . . "Travel Fiction." . . "Ganges" . . "Asia" . . "Heng he" . . "恆河" . "heng he" .