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Re-reading ”Chasing The Monsoon” by Alexander Frater

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There are some books that I re-read every few years, and always with undiminished pleasure. As it so happens, several of them are about India, some of them my ritual pre-monsoon, hot-weather reading. Kim. Heat and Dust. And, of course, “Chasing the Monsoon“, Alexander Frater’s marvellous travelogue about following the …

Chasing the Monsoon by Alexander Frater

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It has been a few years since I re-re-read Alexander Frater’s  “Chasing the Monsoon”, one of those books that so perfectly captures India that it the book is, well, perfect. (And yes, what a shockingly inadequate sentence that is.) I loved this book the first time I read it, when …