White Mountain
Real and Imagined Journeys in the Himalayas
(Sprache: Englisch)
A sweeping biography of the Himalayas by the acclaimed author of RED NILE and ANGRY WHITE PYJAMAS
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A sweeping biography of the Himalayas by the acclaimed author of RED NILE and ANGRY WHITE PYJAMAS
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'Robert Twigger is not so much a travel writer as a thrill-seeking philosopher' EsquireThe Himalayas beckon and we go ... Some to make real journeys and others to make imaginary ones. These mountains, home to Buddhists, Bonpos, Jains, Muslims, Hindus, shamans and animists, to name only a few, are a place of pilgrimage and dreams, revelation and war, massacre and invasion, but also peace and unutterable calm.
In an exploration of the region's seismic history, Robert Twigger unravels some of these real and invented journeys and the unexpected links between them. Following a meandering path across the Himalayas to its physical end in Nagaland on the Indian-Burmese border, Twigger encounters incredible stories from a unique cast of mountaineers and mystics, pundits and prophets. The result is a sweeping, enthralling and surprising journey through the history of the world's greatest mountain range.
Autoren-Porträt von Robert Twigger
ROBERT TWIGGER has won the Newdigate Prize for poetry, the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award and the Somerset Maugham Award. His twelve books have been translated into over twenty languages and cover both fiction and non-fiction, memoir and travel. He spent a year training with the Tokyo riot police, crossed Canada in a homemade birchbark canoe and was the first person to traverse entirely on foot the Egyptian Great Sand Sea. His quarterly comic of memoir and travel, This Simple Life, is available at roberttwigger.com
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Robert Twigger
- 2016, 480 Seiten, Maße: 16,4 x 24 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Orion Publishing Group
- ISBN-10: 0297608711
- ISBN-13: 9780297608714
- Erscheinungsdatum: 29.09.2016
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
'Twigger leaves no mountain path untouched . . . lively, interesting, unusual and entertaining' Sara Wheeler THE SPECTATOR
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