Reviewing The Scandal of Empire for The New York Review Of Books , William Dalyrymple celebrates an environmentalist East India Company magnifico whose feather light carbon footprint should set Vanity Fair subscribers to gnawing their Prius steering wheels in shame:
The Boston-born Sir David Ochterlony ...every evening used to take all thirteen of his Indian consorts around Delhi , each on the back of her own elephant.
I can't believe how much of this I just wasn't aware of. Thank you for bringing more information to this topic for me. I'm truly grateful and really impressed.
Posted by: Health News | March 18, 2011 at 01:25 AM