Hair India: A Guide to the Bizarre Beards and Magnificent Moustaches of Hindustan

2008 McCallum & Stowers large format hardcover edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. From the cover: Do you know your momo-moochie from your wacky Ladakhi; ever seen a Louisiana lip leech taking tea with a praying mantis; embarrassed when dinner party conversation turns to the taxonomy of the hybrid soup-strainer? What exactly is an Asiatic ball-buffer? We understand your predicament. Fortunately with this photographic guide-book to Indian pogonology you'll no longer be woolly about your walruses or fuzzy about your French forks. Follow us then on a journey from hirshute Himalayan hinterlands to follicularly festooned festivals in Rajasthan; from the beard bazaars of old Delhi to Mysore's moustache weightlifting scene; from record-breakers in rural Punjab to pachydermal protrusions of deepest Bihar. So preen your pipe cleaner, trim the old tulip vase and grease that great crested goatee for a voyage of discovery of hair raising proportions.