Trevelogue
E.S. Turner, 25 June 1987
The Golden Oriole: Childhood, Family and Friends in India
by Raleigh Trevelyan.
Secker, 536 pp., £16.95, May 1987,0 436 53403 7 Show More
by Raleigh Trevelyan.
Secker, 536 pp., £16.95, May 1987,
“... his boyhood was spent in Gilgit, a spectacular version of Shangri-La, cut off most of the year by snow, on the borders of Sinkiang, Afghanistan and the Soviet Union. The Gilgit Agency, another appendage of the Raj, was well located for playing the Great Game and one of the duties of Captain Walter Trevelyan was to interrogate refugees from the Soviets. It ... ”