Slowly Down the Ganges Audiobook (Free)

‘Slowly Straight down the Ganges’ sometimes appears as an antique Newby masterpiece, alongside ‘A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush’ and ‘Appreciate and War in the Apennines’. Told with Newby’s self-deprecating humour and wry focus on detail, this is a classic from the genre and a window into an enchanting piece of history.

On his forty-forth birthday, Eric Newby sets out on an incredible journey: to visit the 1,200-mile amount of India’s holy river. Inside a misguided try to maintain him out of difficulty, Wanda, his about Gradually Down the Ganges life-long travel friend and wife, is usually to be his fellow boatwoman. Their plan is to begin with in the great ordinary of Hardwar and end in the Bay of Bengal, however the journey almost instantly becomes markedly slower and more treacherous than either had imagined – working aground sixty-three times in the initial six days.

Travelling in a variety of unpredictable boats, as well as by rail, bus and bullock cart, and resting at sandbanks and remote villages, the Newbys encounter participating heroes and glorious mishaps, including the non-existence of large-scale maps of the country, a realisation that concerns of pure ‘logic’ trigger grave criminal offense and, on one occasion, the only person in sight for miles is an old man who’s himself uncertain where he is. Newby’s just consolation: on the river, if you go downstream, you’re sure to end up somewhere…