Begums, Thugs, and White Mughals: The Journals of Fanny Parkes by William Dalrymple, Fanny Parkes

Begums, Thugs, and White Mughals: The Journals of Fanny Parkes

William Dalrymple, Fanny Parkes

361 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction history travel challenging reflective slow-paced
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Fanny Parkes, who lived in India between 1822 and 1846, was the ideal travel writer - courageous, indefatigably curious and determinedly independent. Her delightful journal traces her journey from prim memsahib, married to a minor civil servant of...

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