Delhi: Adventures in a Megacity
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In an extraordinary portrayal of one of the world’s fastest growing cities, Sam Miller sets out to discover the real Delhi. Following a spiral course through the city, he visits its less celebrated destinations; the unexpected, the ignored and the eccentric. Through his encounters with Delhi’s people – from a professor of astrophysics to a crematorium attendant, from ragpickers to members of the Police Brass Band – Miller creates a richly entertaining portrait of what this megacity means to its residents. The modern Delhi he depicts, in all its humour and humanity, is one whose future concerns us all.

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Weight 0.283 kg
Dimensions 2.2 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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Format

Paperback
Language

Pages

304
Publisher

Year Published

2010-7-1
Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

0099526743
About The Author

Sam Miller was born and brought up in London, but has spent much of his adult life in India. He is a former BBC journalist and is the author of Delhi: Adventures in a Megacity (2009), Blue Guide: India (2012) and A Strange Kind of Paradise: India Through Foreign Eyes (2014). He is also the translator of The Marvellous (But Authentic) Adventures of Captain Corcoran (2016) by Alfred Assollant.

A wild, spiralling wonder of a book… the sharpest reflection of the capital since William Dalrymple's City of Djinns… Read this book and laugh, grow and gaze in gob-smacked wonder at India's whirling dreamtown
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The liveliest of city travelogues, a beguiling introduction to the Indian capital and an irresistible read for even the faintly curious

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