Indian Balm is the captivating account of a journey Paul Hyland made along the little-known course of the sacred Godavari river in Southern India: a pilgrimage through both his past and India's present. It is the story of the search for his ancestors, missionaries and traders, who settled in the region generations ago and of their Balm--a wonder cure for all sorts of ailments and afflictions. It is also a fascinating and enlightening journey through India today. Wading through the country's contradictions and irritations, its ugliness and its beauty, Hyland encounters both the exotic and the commonplace. He meets snake charmers and sadhus, bogi men and horn dancers, witnesses ancient rituals and observes the most simple aspects of daily life. Indian Balm is an extraordinary and, above all, unique journey--vivid, intimate and revealing--travel writing at its colorful best.

Indian Balm: Travels in the Southern Subcontinent

Travel

Hyland, Paul

Asia

Harpercollins

Hyland, Paul, Backwards Out Of The World: A Voyage Into Portugal

Backwards out of the big world: A voyage into Portugal

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Ralegh's Last Journey: A Tale of Madness, Vanity and Treachery

Biographies & Memoirs

Harper-Collins, London

<p>A study in vanity and ambition, madness and resignationSir Walter Ralegh was the greatest courtier of his day, Elizabeth's favourite, dashing, brilliant, wily and powerful. But by the summer of 1618, his last voyage a failure and suffering the hostility of James I, he was escorted from Plymouth to London and the scaffold. Paul Hyland unfurls the story of the last twenty weeks of Sir Walter's life, of that fateful journey, of Ralegh's grotesque behaviour along the way, of the web of deceit and counter-treachery woven between him and his reviled betrayer 'Judas' Stucley, and of their travelling companion the French physician and double agent Dr Manoury. Around this last journey are intertwined other key players: Bes -- Elizabeth Throckmorton -- Ralegh's handsome, resourceful and distracted wife; Carew, their thirteen-year-old son; and Samuel King, privateering captain and link with past glories. On several occasions Ralegh has the opportunity to escape, and refuses it; then, when at last he opts for freedom (wearing a false beard), in a sprint down the Thames by rowing boat, he finds himself again betrayed.</p>

Ralegh's Last Journey : A Tale of Madness, Vanity and Treachery

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

RALEGH'S LAST JOURNEY: A Tale of Madness, Vanity and Treachery

HARPER/COLLINS

Irish Writing: Exile and Subversion (Insights)

<p>This is a collection of original essays by international scholars which focuses on Irish writing in English from the eighteenth century to the present. The essays explore the recurrent motif of exile and the subversive potential of Irish writing in political, cultural and literary terms. Case-studies of major writers such as Swift, Joyce, and Heaney are set alongside discussions of relatively unexplored writing such as radical pamphleteering in the age of the French Revolution and the contribution of women writers to Nationalistic journalism.</p>

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

This is a collection of original essays by international scholars which focuses on Irish writing in English from the eighteenth century to the present. The essays explore the recurrent motif of exile and the subversive potential of Irish writing in political, cultural and literary terms. Case-studies of major writers such as Swift, Joyce, and Heaney are set alongside discussions of relatively unexplored writing such as radical pamphleteering in the age of the French Revolution and the contribution of women writers to Nationalistic journalism.

Macmillan

Censorship affects us all. But what do we actually mean by freedom of expression? And who exercises the controls and constraints? This book explores an issue of vital contemporary importance, from a range of cultural and literary perspectives, from the Tudor period to the present. Written by some of the leading experts in the field, this collection charts struggles for artistic expression, reveals how censorship is appropriated as a legitimate tactic in the defence of oppressed and marginalized groups, and analyzes the struggles writers have employed in the face of its complex dynamics. Here variously defined, defended and deplored, censorship emerges as both an unstable and a potent concept.

Writing and Censorship in Britain

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Routledge

This collection of essays accepts no sharp and ready distinctions between types of writing; essays on famous writers and literature are placed alongside those dealing with non-literary material sermons, journalism, political pamphlets. Censorship and its effects are variously defined, described, defended, and deplored. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Purbeck: The Ingrained Island

History

Europe

Victor Gollancz

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Books by Hyland, Paul

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Indian Balm: Travels in the Southern Subcontinent

Backwards out of the big world: A voyage into Portugal

Ralegh's Last Journey: A Tale of Madness, Vanity and Treachery

Ralegh's Last Journey : A Tale of Madness, Vanity and Treachery

RALEGH'S LAST JOURNEY: A Tale of Madness, Vanity and Treachery

Irish Writing: Exile and Subversion (Insights)

Irish Writing: Exile and Subversion (Insights)

Writing and Censorship in Britain

Writing and Censorship in Britain

Purbeck: The Ingrained Island