Himalaya: A Literary Homage to Adventure, Meditation and Life on the Roof of the World

✍ Scribed by Bond, Ruskin

• Publisher: Shambhala
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 340 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0834841533

✦ Synopsis

The travels of Fa-hien / H.A. Giles (tr.) -- An emperor's sojourn / Jahangir -- Slipping into Tibet / Sarat Chandra Das -- Report of a route-survey ; Made by pundit [nain singh] from Nepal to Lhasa ; Between wolves and shipwreck / Sven Hedin -- The train to Darjeeling / Mark Twain -- The abominable snowman / Frank S. Smythe -- Mutiny on Kangchenjunga / Aleister Crowley -- The summit / Edmund Hillary -- To Namdapha and Tawang / Anil Yadav -- Meditations ; Fragment from the Adi Purana / Jinasena -- Just a strand in Shiva's hair: face to face with the axis of the world / Arundhathi Subramaniam -- Himalaya on a pushcart / Dharamvir Bharati -- Travels in India as an unknown sannyasin / Swami Vivekananda -- The travels of Swami Haridas / Rahul Sankrityayan -- In search of the snow leopard / Peter Matthiessen -- Sunlight on Kinchinjunga / Francis Younghusband -- Ladakh sojourn ; A mountain retreat / Vicki Mackenzie -- Mountains in my blood / Ruskin Bond -- Life ; A night in a garhwal village / Ruskin Bond -- Springs / Jemima Diki Sherpa.