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100	1		_aFrater, Alexander, _d1937-
245	1	0	_aChasing the monsoon / _cAlexander Frater.
260			_aNew Delhi, India ; _aNew York, N.Y., U.S.A. : _bPenguin Books, _c1991.
300			_aviii, 273 p. : _bill. ; _c20 cm.Pbk.
500			_aAccount of the course and effects of the monsoon in India; covers 1987. Gratis Rs.250/-
520			_aOn 20th May the Indian summer monsoon will begin to envelop the country in two great wet arms, one coming from the east, the other from the west. They are untied over central India around 10th July, a date that can be calculated within seven or eight days. Frater aims to follow the monsoon, staying sometimes behind it, sometimes in front of it, and everywhere watching the impact of this extraordinary phenomenon. During the anxious period of waiting, the weather forecaster is king, consulted by pie-crested cockatoos, and a joyful period ensues: there is a period of promiscuity, and scandals proliferate. Frater's journey will take him to Bangkok and the cowboy town on the Thai- Malaysian border to Rangoon and Akyab in Burma (where the front funnels up between the mountains and the sea).
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