{"product_id":"the-long-strider","title":"The Long Strider","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Dom Moraes\u003cbr\u003eSarayu Srivatsa\/\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Penguin\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2003\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 359\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 0670049751\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book tells the extraordinary story of Thomas Coryate's 5000-mile journey on foot to India, across the forbidding Arabian desert and the treacherous Hindukush mountains.  Interwoven with the narrative about Coryate's quest is an account of the authors' own travels through the cities the Englishman visited nearly four hundred years ago.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the early seventeenth century, Thomas Coryate, an eccentric Englishman, a writer and a wanderer, decided to walk from his village  of Odcombe in Somerset to the Indies - to the court of the Great Mogul, Jehangir, and onwards to Chin, the land from where the silks came.  His search was for frame, not fortune he wanted to be the first man to write about those distant lands.  Above all, he wanted to prove himself - to his many skeptics in Prince Henry's court, whom he amused for a living, and the lovely lady Anne Harcourt, whom he loved deeply, only to be hurt. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo reach the court of Jehnagir, Coryate survived penury, loneliness, ridicule and extreme hostility; but disillusionment awaited him at the end of his journey: despite her many wonders and charms, he was also shocked and repelled by India, and the emperor, possessor of fabulous wealth, made a mockery of his dream.  Coryate died in the port city of Surat and was buried there in an obscure grave.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInterwoven with the narrative about Coryate's quest is an account of the authors' own travels through the cities the Englishman visited nearly four hundred years ago. In Coryate's footsteps, they go to Delhi, Ajmer, Agra, Aligarh and Surat and discover that while much has changed, in some respects the India Coryate encountered is not very different from the India that exists today.  Part biography, part travelogue, The Long Strider written with elegance, wit and insight, is a compelling read.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMen, Women and Old Boots\u003cbr\u003eDairy One: April 1999-September 2000 \/ Delhi-London-Odcombe\u003cbr\u003eFull Sail on Dry Land\u003cbr\u003eDiary Two: October 2000-June 2002 \/ Odcombe-Mumbai-London\u003cbr\u003eOasis in the Desert\u003cbr\u003eDiary Three: July 2002 \/ London-Mumbai\u003cbr\u003eIn Search of an Emperor\u003cbr\u003eDiary Four: August 2002 \/ Mumbai-Delhi-Aligarh\u003cbr\u003eA Demon and Two Priests\u003cbr\u003eDiary Five: September 2002 \/ Agra-Mathura-Vrindavan\u003cbr\u003eWaiting for Sir Thomas\u003cbr\u003eDairy Six: September 2002 \/ Agra-Pushkar-Ajmer\u003cbr\u003eExile\u003cbr\u003eDiary Seven: September 2002 \/ Ajmer-Pushkar\u003cbr\u003eThe Roads of Torment\u003cbr\u003eDiary Eight: October 2002 \/ Haridwar-Rishikesh-Jwalamukh\u003cbr\u003eThe Strider's Surrender\u003cbr\u003eDiary Nine: December 2002-February 2003 \/ Varanasi-Allahabad-Mandu\u003cbr\u003eRoad's End\u003cbr\u003eDiary Ten: March 2003 \/ Surat\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Dom Moraes \/ Penguin \/ Hardcover","offer_id":68153684590960,"sku":"12156","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/5203\/9792\/files\/12156.jpg?v=1793912531","url":"https:\/\/marketcalvexa.shop\/products\/the-long-strider","provider":"Alderstone House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}