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Chasing the Monsoon by Alexander Frater

Chasing the Monsoon by Alexander Frater

Adventure, Alexander Frater, Asia, India & South Asia, Nature, Nonfiction, Penguin Books, Travel, Non-fiction 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 untied 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 will take 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).
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Adventure, Alexander Frater, Asia, India & South Asia, Nature, Nonfiction, Penguin Books, Travel , Non-fiction

Condition

Gently Used
Pages

273
Language

EN
Publication Date

1991


ISBN

9780140105162
Binding

Paperback
Publisher

Penguin Books