Hussein
Subtitle: an entertainment
By: Patrick O'Brian
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York : b Norton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: Working elephants -- India -- Fiction; Asiatic elephant -- India -- Fiction; India -- Social life and customs -- Fiction; India -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: "Hussein is a story about a young mahout - or elephant handler - with his childhood and life in India, his relationship and adventures with elephants all rendered in rich detail. As a boy, Hussein falls in love with a beautiful and elusive girl, Sashiya, and arranges for another of her suitors to be murdered with a fakir's curse. The dead man's relatives vow vengeance.

Hussein escapes and his adventures begin: snake-charming, sword-fighting, spying, stealing a fortune, and returning triumphantly to claim his bride. All of this is set against an evocatively exotic India, full of bazaars, temples, and beautiful women."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Originally published 1938