Hills of the North-West Frontier," 122 pages of the novel have slipped India as a new Army recruit looking forward to "soldiering among the wild Nor will he ever be accepted as truly English. Relations in England who see to it that he can never again think of himself as Identity is at last discovered, and he is whisked away to aristocratic By a stroke of fortune, good or bad, his English He is raised primarilyīy a Hindu hill-woman who dies, too, a few years later while the two are fleeingįrom one deadly peril while another one, the 1857 Sepoy Rebellion, drenches the Himalayas" and his friends, enemies, mistrustful allies and well-meaningĪshton Pelham-Martyn's parents die young. Fans remain captivated by its portrayals ofĪ boy born to English parents "in a camp near the crest of a pass in the A sweeping story of India during the Raj, The Far Pavilions was an immediateīestseller when published in 1978.
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