In the Land of Giants: Hunting Monsters in the Hindu Kush

✍ Scribed by Martinez, Gabi

• Book ID: 109740892
• Publisher: Scribe Publications
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 3 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781925307627

✦ Synopsis

'The imagination has its sanctuaries, too.'

High up in the Hindu Kush, between the ancient pagan Kalash people and the new medievalists of the Taliban, a charismatic young Spaniard, Jordi Magraner, made his home, mastering the local languages and customs before meeting his death in the most mysterious way. In this magisterial book, Gabi Martínez sets off in Jordi's footsteps to the land of the giants in order to try to solve the riddle of this murder and of Jordi's life.

Jordi Magraner was a brilliant student of the natural world, whose lab was the ravine and the scarp and the tent. His observational investigations led him to places where the legendary barmanu had been sighted, and he began to develop a thesis about the life of the wild man. His passion for pursuit and discovery took him onto ever more perilous terrain in the Pakistani-Afghan borderlands...