This wonderful box set brings together four of the craziest, most entertaining travel books about India by celebrated writers and mavericks. A young Dom Moraes?already one of the finest writers of the language, and a prodigious drinker?gets to know some of the strangest places and people of the Indian subcontinent in the 1950s.The legendary traveller Dervla Murphy cycles from Ireland to India in the 1960s, braving harsh weather, forbidding terrain, bandits and wild animals.