Simon Winchester's Calcutta

This is a book with a history of Calcutta written by Simon Winchester and his son, which to be fair is quite detailed, but fairly dry. After this and a couple of short essays by the Winchesters, there are a load of excerpts on the topic of Calcutta. Some are great, some not so.
There are some heavy hitters included - Clark Blaise & Bharati Mukherjee, William Dalrymple, Dominique Lapierre, Adrian Levy & Cathy Scott-Clark, VS Naipaul were the better for me. Others included Geoffrey Moorhouse, Paul Theroux, James Morris & Mark Twain.
The small type in the edition I read didn't help... it really was small print.