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During the years 1858-1947 India was ruled by Greet Britain, a period known as the Raj. During this time, many young women set out for India where, if all went according to plan, they married. They were known as the Fishing Fleet. This book was published on 12 July 2012 and jumped straight to no 1 in Amazon's Mover and Shakers, to no 4 in the (non-fiction) best-sellers list, no 2 in the Telegraph Books list and no 1 in the Evening Standard best-sellers list, no 1 in the Evening Standard

Anne de Courcy's The Fishing Fleet is a remarkable account of the life led by those who ruled India under the Raj from the second half of the nineteenth century until India gained its independence in the mid-twentieth century. It is based in part on the diaries, and private correspondence of young British women who left their homes and traveled by sea for weeks and sometimes months, to reach India in order to find a husband and start a new life. The author has done in-depth research and

The Fishing Fleet: Husband-Hunting in the Raj de De Courcy, Anne sur - ISBN 10 : 0297863827 - ISBN 13 : 9780297863823 - W&N - 2012 - Couverture rigide

The Fishing Fleet: Husband-Hunting in the Raj : Anne de Courcy, Greta Scacchi, Orion Publishing Group Limited: Livres et œuvres originales Audible