Remarkable and "astonishing," says Jan Morris of Roy Moxham's account of his
search for "one of the least-known wonders of Queen Victoria's India," and John
Keay finds it "a compelling read, simply told, and simply wonderful." An
unquestionably fascinating tale, as well as a travel book and historical
detective story, The Great Hedge of India begins in a secondhand bookshop on
London's Charing Cross Road. There Roy Moxham buys the memoir of a
nineteenth-century British colonial administrative officer, who makes a passing
reference to a giant hedge planted by the British across the Indian
subcontinent. That hedge--which for fifty years had been manned and cared for by
12,000