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Birds of Passage: Henrietta Clive's Travels in South India 1798-1801 by Nancy Shields (Paperback, 2016)

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Birds of Passage : Henrietta Clive's Travels in South India 1, Paperback by Shields, Nancy (EDT); Henrietta, Clive, ISBN 1780600798, ISBN-13 9781780600796, Brand New, Free P&P in the UK The journals of Lady Henrietta Clive, a feisty, independent-minded traveler, are among the very earliest written accounts of India by a British woman. In this book, editor Nancy Shields skillfully interweaves extracts from the journals with passages from the diary of Charly, Henrietta's precocious twelve-year-old daughter. Birds of Passage is illustrated with watercolours by Anna Tonelli, who accompanied the party of their voyage.

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Henrietta is a true original. Clever, vivacious and interested in everything, she balanced the demands of high profile public life with that of a caring mother. The home-schooled daughter of a bankrupt Earl, in thrall to her handsome wayward brother, but married off to a plump pudding of a man - the nabob Edward Clive, governor of Madras - 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. 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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PublisherEland Publishing LTD

ISBN-139781780600796

eBay Product ID (ePID)223087468

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Book TitleBirds of Passage: Henrietta Clive's Travels in South India 1798-1801

AuthorNancy Shields

FormatPaperback

LanguageEnglish

TopicHistory, Travel Writing

Publication Year2016

TypeTextbook

Number of Pages328 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height221mm

Item Width146mm

Item Weight370g

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EditorNancy Shields

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom

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Interesting nattative of a very confident lady.
She achieved things back then that modern women wouldn't take on.
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