Himalaya

Himalaya

by Ruskin Bond and Namita Gokhale
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 05/06/2018

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Intimate, exhilarating writings on adventure, meditation, and life in the captivating wildness of the Himalayan Mountains—with contributions from Amitav Ghosh, Mark Twain, Rabindranath Tagore, Peter Matthiessen, and more.


For some, the Himalaya is a frontier against which people test themselves. Others find refuge and tranquility in the mountains, a place where they can seek their true selves, perhaps even God. Over millennia, the mountains have cradled civilization itself and nurtured teeming, irrepressible life. With over thirty essays, this exhilarating anthology offers a dazzling range of voices that reveal accounts of great ascents and descents—from reflecting on a deadly avalanche to searching for a snow leopard and enjoying the simple pleasure of riding a handcar down a railway track. These diverse writings bring to life the spirit of the Himalaya in an unparalleled panorama.


Contributors include:

Amitav Ghosh

Mark Twain

Rabindranath Tagore

Peter Matthiessen

Edmund Hillary

Aleister Crowley

Andrew Harvey

Vicki Mackenzie

Sarat Chandra Das

H. A. Giles (Trans.)

Jahangir

Sven Hedin

Frank S. Smythe

Anil Yadav

Jinasena

Arundhathi Subramaniam

Dharamvir Bharati

Swami Vivekananda

Rahul Sankrityayan

Francis Younghusband

Ruskin Bond

Jemima Diki Sherpa

Kirin Narayan

Jawaharlal Nehru

Abdul Wahid Radhu

Jim Corbett

Bill Aitken

Hridayesh Joshi

Dom Moraes

Manjushree Thapa

ISBN:
9780834841536
9780834841536
Category:
Travel writing
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
05-06-2018
Language:
English
Publisher:
Shambhala
Ruskin Bond

Born in Kasauli in 1934, Ruskin Bond grew up in Jamnagar, Dehradun, New Delhi and Shimla. His first novel, The Room on the Roof, written when he was seventeen, received the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957.

Since then he has written over five hundred short stories, essays and novellas (some included in the collections Dust on the Mountains and Classic Ruskin Bond) and more than forty books for children.

He received the Sahitya Akademi Award for English writing in India in 1993, the Padma Shri in 1999, and the Delhi government's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012.

He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi's Bal Sahitya Puraskar for his 'total contribution to children's literature' in 2013 and was honoured with the Padma Bhushan in 2014. He lives in Landour, Mussoorie, with his extended family. He has regaled generations of readers for decades.

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