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Birds of Passage - Henrietta Clive's Travels in South India 1798-1801 (Paperback)
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Birds of Passage - Henrietta Clive's Travels in South India 1798-1801 (Paperback)
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Henrietta is a true original. Clever, vivacious and interested in
everything, she managed to balance the demands of high profile
public life with that of a caring mother. She was the home-schooled
daughter of a bankrupt Earl and more than just a little bit in love
with her handsome wayward brother, but had been married off to a
plump pudding of a man, the nabob Edward Clive, governor of Madras.
And her partial escape was to ride across southern India (in a vast
tented caravan propelled by dozens of elephants, camels and a
hundred bullock carts) and write home. For centuries this account,
the first joyful description of India by a British woman, remained
unread in a Welsh castle. Fortunately it was transcribed by a Texan
traveller, who went on to splice this already evocative memoir with
complementary sections from the diary of Henrietta's precocious
daughter, the 12-year old Charly and images of their artist
companion, Anna Tonelli. The resulting labour of love and
scholarship is Birds of Passage, a unique trifocular account of
three very different women travelling across southern India in the
late 18th century, in the immediate aftermath of the last of the
Mysore Wars between Tipoo Sahib and the Raj. Half a generation
later, the well travelled Charly would be chosen as tutor for the
young princess Victoria, the First Empress of India.
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