This dual travelogue tells the extraordinary story of a maverick's 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...
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