About the book: 1970 / “It happened during the fifth hunting expedition, which Raja and I led. Rajah? Aiyar, co-owner of the company Rivers and Aiyar. I call him Raja because he is the hereditary monarch of Janpur. These days, of course, that title isn't worth a damn. I knew him in India, then unexpectedly met him in New York, where he headed an Indian travel agency. Remember the dark-faced guy in the photograph that hangs on the wall of our office - he also put his foot on the corpse of a saber-toothed tiger? Well, Raja was fed up with handing out brochures about the Taj Mahal and wanted to hunt again, like in the old days. And I was idle when we first heard about a professor from the University of Washington and his time machine..»