About the Book: The Long Strider in Jehangirs Hindustan
This dual travelogue tells the extraordinary story of a mavericks 5000-mile
journey on foot from England to India, across the forbidding Arabian desert and
the treacherous Hindukush mountains, and then his wanderings in Mughal India..
In the early 1600s, Thomas Coryate, writer and wanderer, decided to walk from
his village in Somerset to the Indies?to the court of the 'Great Mogul,
Jehangir?and onwards to China. His search was for fame, not fortune?he wanted to
be the first Englishman to write about those distant lands. Above all, he wanted
to prove himself to his many sceptics in Prince Henrys