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Notion Press proudly brings to you timeless classics from ancient texts to popular modern classics. This carefully chosen collection of books is a celebration of literature, our tribute to the pioneers, the legends and the giants of the literary world. Apart from being the voice of indie writers, we also want to introduce every reader to read all kinds of literature. In this series, you will find a wide range of books-from popular classics lik...

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Caravans By Night: A Romance Of IndiaThis book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typograph...

The book, Caravans By Night, A Romance of India , has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.

Excerpt from The Black Parrot: A Tale of the Golden ChersoneseE had come up from that necklace of islands that H trails its emeralds over the Pacific, which is to say, he stepped out of Nowhere.Perhaps he was a planter. Or a trader. Or a shell hunter. Or an agent from one of those brazen ports where white men turn brown like bricks in a kiln. Certainly he was not a tourist.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of r...

Excerpt from The Black Parrot: A Tale of the Golden ChersoneseE had come up from that necklace of islands that H trails its emeralds over the Pacific, which is to say, he stepped out of Nowhere.Perhaps he was a planter. Or a trader. Or a shell hunter. Or an agent from one of those brazen ports where white men turn brown like bricks in a kiln. Certainly he was not a tourist.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of r...

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Excerpt from Caravans by Night: A Romance of IndiaYou will find him busy, whether you visit the bazaar in mid-morning or in the afternoon, or even after sun set, when lamps embroider the lacework of lanes and alleys.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art tec...

Harry Hervey's lush account takes us on a quest for a lost Khmer temple in 1925 French Indochina. Three stories march side-by-side to the measure of his cadenced prose: the impact of French colonialism on the Far East, the tale of the glorious Khmer civilization, and the sensual, barbaric lives of the region's people in another era. Renowned travel writer Pico Iyer opens with a provocative foreword, then we join Hervey on his trek, now lavish...

Early 20th century French Indochina: a place where the cultures, passions and blood of East and West mixed freely. In 1925, American author Harry Hervey saw white men "sowing the legend of Civilization in soil too fecund to resist any new growth, " inspiring his most vivid novel. In a tale drunk with sensuous beauty, irony and dark intensity, we experience the life of one young girl-a congai-named Thi-Linh. Born of an Annamite mother and Frenc...

Excerpt from Caravans by Night: A Romance of India She sighed, then hummed a little tune as she ran a comb through the thick strands. The odor of tobacco ¿oated to her from the adjoining room where Alan was making out a report. She liked the smell, it was clean and masculine. When she had plaited her hair into two long braids, she slipped into a dressing-gown and pattered into her brother '8 room in bedroom sandals. About the Publisher For...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.