High: A Journey Across the Himalaya, Through Pakistan, India, Bhutan, Nepal, and China by Fatland, Erika

High: A Journey Across the Himalaya, Through Pakistan, India, Bhutan, Nepal, and China (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781639363360)

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High: A Journey Across the Himalaya, Through Pakistan, India, Bhutan, Nepal, and China by Fatland, Erika

High: A Journey Across the Himalaya, Through Pakistan, India, Bhutan, Nepal, and China

$35.00
High: A Journey Across the Himalaya, Through Pakistan, India, Bhutan, Nepal, and China by Fatland, Erika

High: A Journey Across the Himalaya, Through Pakistan, India, Bhutan, Nepal, and China

$35.00
Format: Hardcover
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An ambitious and magnificent new travelogue by bestselling and prize-winning author Erika Fatland (The Border and Sovietistan), on a journey along the Himalaya.

The Himalaya weave through five very different countries, where the world religions of Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism are mixed with ancient shamanic religions. Countless languages and vastly different cultures live in the secluded mountain valleys. Modernity and tradition collide, while the great powers fight for influence.

We have read about mountain climbers on their way up Mount Everest and about travellers on the spiritual quest for Buddhist monasteries. But how much do we know about the people living in the Himalaya? Fatland invites us into close encounters with the many peoples of the region, and at the same time takes us on a dizzying journey at altitude through incredible landscapes and dramatic, unknown world histories - all the way to the most volatile human conflicts of our times.

Author: Erika Fatland
ISBN-10: 163936336X
ISBN-13: 9781639363360
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Language: English
Published: 01/03/2023
Pages: 624
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.76lbs
Size: 9.13h x 6.06w x 1.97d
By Erika Fatland
By Erika Fatland
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Erika Fatland studied Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. Her 2011 book, The Village of Angels, was an in situ report on the Beslan terror attacks of 2004 and she is also the author of The Year Without Summer, describing the harrowing year that followed the massacre on Uta in 2011. For Sovietistan (2019) she was shortlisted for the Edward Stanford/Lonely Planet Debut Travel Writer of the Year, and The Border (2020) was shortlisted for the Stanfords Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2020. Both are available from Pegasus Books. She speaks eight languages and lives in Oslo with her husband.

Kari Dickson is a translator from Norwegian of crime fiction, literary fiction, children's books, theatre, and non-fiction, including Erika Fatland's Sovietistan and The Border. She is also an occasional tutor in Norwegian language, literature, and translation at the University of Edinburgh.

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