'All the dusty enchantment and the recurrent dottiness of India – its exasperating charm – are in these pages' Eric Linklater
'Any book by Eric Newby is an event' Len Deighton
'Impossible to describe adequately the flavour of this delicious story … vintage Newby delicately salted with “The Wind in the Willows” and “Three Men in a Boat”' Guardian
'No journey into an unmapped interior to carry the word or find a lost explorer was more obstinately seen through to its end than this do-it-yourself pleasure trip … Mr Newby has fine descriptive gifts and a deft touch in casual portraiture' Times Literary Supplement
'One of the finest and certainly the funniest of British travel writers' Sunday Times