Long Strider: How Thomas Coryate Walked from England to India in the Year 1613

This book tells the extraordinary story of Thomas Coryate's 5000-mile journey on foot to India, across the forbidding Arabian desert and the treacherous Hindukush mountains. To reach the court of Jehangir, Coryate survived penury, loneliness, ridicule and extreme hostility; but disillusionment awaited him at the end of this journey: despite her many wonders and chamrs, he was also shoked and repelled by India, and the emporer, possessor of fabulous wealth, made a mockery of his dream. Coryate died in the port city of Surat, and was buried there in an obscure grave. Interwoven with the narrative about Coryate's quest is an account of the authors' own travels through the cities the Englishmen visited nearly four hundred years ago.