An Indian Odyssey (RARE BOOKS)

Sensual, earthly…incredibly well-informed… An engaging and powerful book Daily Telegraph

Essential… it brings the reader into the heart of the Indian subcontinent Irish Times

Travel writing with a difference as Buckley traces the route of theRamayana, the great Indian epic, from north-west India to Sri Lanka, encountering “Marxists and Mystics” along the way. A brilliant blend of travelogue, history and romance Scotland on Sunday

A meditation on the mysteries of life masquerading as a rollicking road trip, in which Buckley heroically makes his way through the carnal to the divine… His India is a tumbling riot of brothels, beggars, bombs, road accidents, riots, temples… Woven into his own epic adventures is his raunchy and believable abridgement of the epicRamayana, worthy Vikram Seth Independent