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High : a journey across the Himalaya, through Pakistan, India, Bhutan, Nepal and China /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fatland, Erika, 1983- (Author)
Other Authors: Dickson, Kari (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Translated from the Norwegian.
Published: New York, NY : Pegasus Books, 2023.
Edition:First Pegasus Books Cloth Edition.
Subjects:
Fatland, Erika, > 1983- > Travel > Himalaya Mountains.
Himalaya Mountains > Description and travel.
Himalaya Mountains > Social life and customs.
Fatland, Erika, > 1983- > Travel > Himalaya Mountains Region.
Himalaya Mountains Region > Description and travel.
Himalaya Mountains Region > Social life and customs.
Manners and customs.
Travel.
Himalaya Mountains.
Himalaya Mountains Region.
Travel writing.
Table of Contents:
  • First stage
  • The new Silk Road
  • High stakes
  • Family planning in fairyland
  • Feast and fast
  • Love in the time of the Taliban
  • Border crossing
  • Paradise with a curfew
  • The highest battlefield in the world
  • Of gods and men
  • Little Tibet
  • Emptiness and the pursuit of radio waves
  • The source
  • Champagne of the mountains
  • The princess without a kingdom
  • Naked treasures
  • The secretive forest ranger
  • Gross national happiness
  • India's wild east
  • For tomorrow
  • Second stage
  • Child goddesses
  • Busy at the top
  • Stories from the capital
  • The prince who did not want to be king
  • The snow leopard
  • The thirsty god
  • Terra nullis
  • The lost congregation
  • The middle of the world
  • The Chinese concubine
  • Scheduled flight to Shangri-La
  • Kingdom of women.