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Ooty Preserved: A Victorian Hill Station in India

Mollie Panter-Downes

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Preserved...and rather charmingly commemorated in this quintessentially Victorian village in the Blue Hills of South India--the Queen of the Hill Stations --a little "patch of England" where the sun has never set. Mrs. Panter-Downes makes a tour of Ootacumund, Ooty, lovely Ooty from its 19th-century existence as a small spiritual spa with tonic air for English exiles to today, with its dwindling number of Europeans and the faint encroachment of modern times--a film factory. Around she goes, from its Government House to its Library to its Club to its Old cemetery which Sir Richard Burton said was already "so extensive, so well stocked" over a hundred years ago. Along with its photographs this is a somewhat pleasing but limited literary daguerrotype with amusing period appointments. Partial New Yorker appearance.--Kirkus

Language: English

Pages: 134

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux

Release: June 01, 1967

ISBN: 0374226601

ISBN 13: 9780374226602

Ooty Preserved: A Victorian Hill Station in India

Mollie Panter-Downes

4/5 ( ratings)

Preserved...and rather charmingly commemorated in this quintessentially Victorian village in the Blue Hills of South India--the Queen of the Hill Stations --a little "patch of England" where the sun has never set. Mrs. Panter-Downes makes a tour of Ootacumund, Ooty, lovely Ooty from its 19th-century existence as a small spiritual spa with tonic air for English exiles to today, with its dwindling number of Europeans and the faint encroachment of modern times--a film factory. Around she goes, from its Government House to its Library to its Club to its Old cemetery which Sir Richard Burton said was already "so extensive, so well stocked" over a hundred years ago. Along with its photographs this is a somewhat pleasing but limited literary daguerrotype with amusing period appointments. Partial New Yorker appearance.--Kirkus

Language: English

Pages: 134

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux

Release: June 01, 1967

ISBN: 0374226601

ISBN 13: 9780374226602

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