{"product_id":"goa-and-the-blue-mountains-9780143031772","title":"Goa And The Blue Mountains","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Richard F. Burton\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Penguin\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst one gentleman chastised his spouse, thenanother, and then another. To judge by the ear, the fair ones did not receivethe discipline with that patience, submission, and long suffering which Easterndames are most apocryphally believed to practise' andso goes this one-of-a-kind travelogue. Goa, And The Blue Mountains,published in 1851, was Richard Burton's first book. After he wasexpelled from Oxford for unruly behaviour, Burton joined the British Indian Armyand spent five happy years in Sindh before an attack of cholera sent him southto the Nilgiris. He renounced the comforts of a steamer to amble down the coastin a pattimar. Burton was a master linguist whostudied Arabic at Oxford and went on to learn Gujarati, Marathi, Persian,Telugu, Sindhi, Punjabi, Pashto and Portuguese. Yet he was a man of his time,and a curmudgeonly wit in the bargain. No one escapes his nit-picking gaze: thePortuguese or mestizos of Goa , the Hindus or Muslims of Malabar, the Todasor - certainly not - the British of the Nilgiris. His matchless drollery makeshis adventures and misadventures a hilarious and transporting read.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46296395874455,"sku":"9780143031772","price":228.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780143031772.webp?v=1769304613","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/goa-and-the-blue-mountains-9780143031772","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}