On a shoestring to Coorg : an experience of southern India : a travel memoir

Dervla Murphy and her five-year-old daughter Rachel- with little money, no taste for luxury and few concrete plans- meander slowly from Bombay to the southernmost tip of India. Interested in everything they see but only truly enchanted by people, they stay in fisherman's huts and no-star hotels, travelling in packed-out buses, on foot and by local boats. They double back to the place they liked most, the hill province of Coorg, and settle down to live there for two months. Here, anchored by her daughter's delight in the company of her Indian neighbours, Murphy sketches an affectionate, fresh a.;Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; Acknowledgements; Map; Prologue; 1: Initiation in Bombay; 2: Hippies in Goa; 3: Tibetans in Mundgod; 4: Discovering Coorg; 5: Musings in Mysore; 6: Andanipura Farm; 7: The Huthri Festival; 8: A Glance at Kerala: Cochin's Kathakali Dance; 9: Pilgrims at Cape Comorin: Family Life in Tamil Nadu; 10: On the Coast of Coromandel; 11: Fever in Madurai: Wildlife in Periyar; 12: Ancestor Veneration in Devangeri; 13: Caste in Coorg; 14: Forest Funeral; 15: A Naming Ceremony and a Wedding; 16: Praying and Dancing; Epilogue; Select Bibliography. Dervla Murphy and her five-year-old daughter Rachel- with little money, no taste for luxury and few concrete plans- meander slowly from Bombay to the southernmost tip of India. Interested in everything they see but only truly enchanted by people, they stay in fisherman's huts and no-star hotels, travelling in packed-out buses, on foot and by local boats. They double back to the place they liked most, the hill province of Coorg, and settle down to live there for two months. Here, anchored by her daughter's delight in the company of her Indian neighbours, Murphy sketches an affectionate, fresh and evocative portrait of these cardamom scented highlands and their warm, spontaneous and self-sufficient inhabitants.