This books is an extremely detailed and practical travel guide about India. It is written for travelers of all budgets. It includes information about temples, holy places, forts, palaces, beaches, hill stations, museums and wildlife parks. It has much practical information and will be of great value for both persons who have never been to India and to persons who have been to India several times (as hundred of people have told me).
It includes practical information on hotels, restaurants, transportation, how to communicate, health, history of India, what to bring, and much more. It also has an excellent easy to understand discription of the religious side of India. One tip in the book almost for certain will be worth the entire price of the book.
John Howley was born in the USA and grew up in Atlantic City, which is one of the most visited tourist towns in the world. For a few years he lived and worked part time in a hotel that his mother managed. He studied to be an accountant at Drexel and Rutgers University. He became a member of ISKCON, to study the Vedic (Indian) scriptures and to learn about the culture of India in 1977.
He spend over eights years in India, much of that traveling around India, and has been virtually from one end of India to the other, both north to south and east to west. He nows resides full time in India in Vrindavan, 120 miles southeast of Delhi, and spend four months a year traveling around India.