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The Fishing Fleet

Husband-hunting in the Raj
Jul 20, 2015tedrich2921 rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
I have mixed feelings about this book. On the one hand, it's a fascinating look at the English rule of India in the mid 1860's through the early 1900's. It describes life in India via diaries and journals of English women looking to get married by looking at military prospects in India. On the other hand, it gets repetitive. This would have been a really, really good magazine article, but it gets old as a book. Too many of the stories are similar, making the overall book kind of boring in totality, but interesting in snippets.