num_pages: 154
description: A priceless collection of letters from one legendary leader to anotherWhen Indira Gandhi was a little girl of ten, she spent the summer in Mussoorie, while her father, Jawaharlal Nehru, was in Allahabad. Over the summer, Nehru wrote her a series of letters in which he told her the story of how and when the earth was made, how human and animal life began, and how civilizations and societiesevolved all over the world.Written in 1928, these letters remain fresh and vibrant, and capture Nehru's love for people and for nature, whose story was for him 'more interesting than any other story or novel that you may have read'.
language: English
title: Letters from a Father to his Daughter
titlecomplete: Letters from a Father to his Daughter
genres: Biography, Classics, History, Indian Literature, Autobiography, Historical, Childrens, India, Nonfiction, Memoir
ratings_count: 2537
publisher: Puffin Books