Sometime back I came to a slow
realization that I own several titles about/or on a few countries such as on
Africa, America, the UK, the Arabs, India, South America, Tibet, and Australia.
But the highest number of titles are on China with nearly a dozen titles. Last
Sunday at Abids I found another superb book though not entirely about China.
It was a beautiful copy of ‘Slow
Boats to China’ by Gavin Young that I almost missed spotting since it was
nestled among books for children that I usually don’t look carefully at. I
noticed it when I spotted the Penguin logo on the cover. I felt glad that I
picked it up because there’s a blurb by Paul Theroux on the cover. After
reading the Prelude I was so taken up that I was tempted to read on. But I had
decided to read all titles about one country/region at one time one after the
other so I could have a better understanding so I kept it alongside the other
titles on China.
Somehow I was irrationally
overjoyed finding the copy of ‘Slow Boats to China’ by Gavin Young though I paid
a hundred and fifty rupees for it.
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