Download or read book Bishop Heber in Northern India written by M. A. Laird and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-08 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1971 edition contains selections from Heber's account of his stay in Calcutta in 1823-24 and his subsequent journey across northern India to Bombay. The journal is marked by a sympathetic understanding of and interest in India to a degree by no means always to be found in British writers of this time.