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All the Way to Heaven
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TextPublication details: New York Penguin Books 1998Description: 319pISBN: - 0140285520
- 818.5403 A4662
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The son and grandson of Presbytarian missionaries living in India for more than a half a century, every day Alter straddled the profound boundary between utterly different peoples, cultures, languages and religions. He and his brothers spoke a pidgin dialect of Hindustani and English as young bouy, fished in the rivers Song, Ganga and the Jumna, and later hunted for barking deer and ghoral in the steep foothills of the mountains always looming behind them. They studied American history but knew more about India`s recent independence from England.
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The son and grandson of Presbytarian missionaries living in India for more than a half a century, every day Alter straddled the profound boundary between utterly different peoples, cultures, languages and religions. He and his brothers spoke a pidgin dialect of Hindustani and English as young bouy, fished in the rivers Song, Ganga and the Jumna, and later hunted for barking deer and ghoral in the steep foothills of the mountains always looming behind them. They studied American history but knew more about India`s recent independence from England.
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