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|title=Never Mind the Bullocks: One girl's 10,000 km adventure around India in the worlds cheapest car

|author=Vanessa Able

|publisher=Nicholas Brealey

|date=March 2014

|website=http://www.www.nanodiaries.com

|summary=Vanessa Able challenged herself to drive round India in the newly-launched Tata Nano. On the way she discovered lots about driving to survive and surprisingly little about that vast country … away from the road.

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With a cute little map of India on the front cover and cartoon cars puttering over the page, I thought I’d chosen an entertaining yet mind-broadening travelogue. Well I was wrong. Now I’ve read it through, I don’t even see it on the same shelf as a Lonely Planet. But that’s possibly this book’s novelty and great strength. The travelogue shelf is fair groaning under weighty tomes by Europeans digging into Indian life and culture. So let me unpack the delights of this particular book for you, but don’t be misled: you aren’t going to pick up many recommendations for your own odyssey from this round-India skedaddle.