An edition of Chasing the monsoon (1990)

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An edition of Chasing the monsoon (1990)

Chasing the monsoon

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Account of the course and effects of the monsoon in India; covers 1987.

Publish Date
Publisher
Penguin Books
Language
English
Pages
273

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Chasing the Monsoon
Chasing the Monsoon
May 6, 2005, Picador
Paperback - New Ed edition
Cover of: Chasing the Monsoon
Chasing the Monsoon: A Modern Pilgrimage Through India
May 2000, Blackstone Audiobooks
Audio cassette in English
Cover of: Chasing the monsoon
Chasing the monsoon: a modern pilgrimage through India
1992, Holt, Henry Holt & Co (P)
in English - 1st Owl Book ed.
Cover of: Chasing the monsoon
Chasing the monsoon
1991, Knopf, Distributed by Random House
in English - 1st American ed.
Cover of: Chasing the monsoon
Chasing the monsoon
1991, Penguin Books
in English
Cover of: Chasing the monsoon
Chasing the monsoon
1990, Viking
in English

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Edition Notes

Account of the course and effects of the monsoon in India; covers 1987.

Published in
New Delhi, India, New York, N.Y., U.S.A

Classifications

Library of Congress
MLCS 91/11469 (G), DS414.2 .F7 1991a

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 273 p. :
Number of pages
273

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1684845M
Internet Archive
chasingmonsoon00frat
ISBN 10
0140105166
LCCN
91906532
OCLC/WorldCat
24910267
Library Thing
920609
Goodreads
1687605

Work Description

The fascinating and revealing story of Frater's journey through India in pursuit of the astonishing Indian summer monsoon. On 20th May the Indian summer monsoon will begin to envelop the country in two great wet arms, one coming from the east, the other from the west. They are united over central India around 10th July, a date that can be calculated within seven or eight days. Frater aims to follow the monsoon, staying sometimes behind it, sometimes in front of it, and everywhere watching the impact of this extraordinary phenomenon. During the anxious period of waiting, the weather forecaster is king, consulted by pie-crested cockatoos, and a joyful period ensues: there is a period of promiscuity, and scandals proliferate. Frater's journey takes him to Bangkok and the cowboy town on the Thai-Malaysian border to Rangoon and Akyab in Burma (where the front funnels up between the mountains and the sea). Alexander Frater's fascinating narrative reveals the exotic, often startling discoveries of an ambitious and irresistibly romantic adventure

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