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The Frozen River - Seeking Silence in the Himalaya (Hardcover)
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The Frozen River - Seeking Silence in the Himalaya (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R517
Discovery Miles 5 170
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'A tour de force of luminous writing.' Mark Cocker, Spectator
'Imagine if your family had lived in the mountains for a thousand
years or more, what effect would that have upon your mind and your
thinking?' In 1976 James Crowden left his career in the British
army and travelled to Ladakh in the Northern Himalaya, one of the
most remote parts of the world. The Frozen River is his
extraordinary account of the time he spent there, living alongside
the Zangskari people, before the arrival of roads and mass tourism.
James immerses himself in the Zangskari way of life, where
meditation and week-long mountain festivals go hand in hand, and
silence and solitude are the hallmarks of existence. When butter
traders invite James on their journey down the frozen river Leh, he
soon realises that this way of living, unchanged for centuries,
comes with a very human cost. In lyrical prose, James captures a
crucial moment in time for this Himalayan community. A moment in
which their Buddhist practices and traditions are in flux, and the
economic pull of a world beyond their valley is increasingly
difficult to ignore.
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