Travelers' Tales Nepal (Travelers' Tales)
Editorial Reviews
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By the time you read the first of these "Traveler's Tales," you'll be flipping to the back of the book to find out more about how to get to Nepal. The country's beguiling mysteries are revealed by teachers, musicians, photographers, poets, and authors such as Peter Matthiessen and Broughton Coburn. Carefully selected quotes from other writers end every section, helping to give another perspective on each theme.
Charlie Pye-Smith sums up the essence of this collection in Travels in Nepal: A Sequestered Kingdom: "I believe that there are a few memories which we carry with us beyond death and from which we shall never be free.... Perhaps it is just a smile or a strand of hair or the smell of warm breath, caught in a chunk of light and time and frozen like a fly in amber. But sometimes there is more than that, a whole world with movement and sound and changing colour."
The publisher, O'Reilly and Associates
Nepal has always been magical and mysterious. Ever since it shed its Shangri-la style isolation and finally admitted Western tourists in the early 1950s, it has stirred the longings and fantasies of travelers of every stripe -- monks and mystics, hippies and yuppies. Nepal, "a yam between two boulders," is at the crossroads where the Gangetic-lowland Hindu India literally collided into the Himalayan-highland Buddhist Tibet, producing a harmonious blend of cultures and traditions that remains maddeningly elusive, but quintessentially Nepali. Nepal is renowned for its temples, shrines, palaces, amazing mountains and jungles -- and especially its riotous, colorful festivals. To the devotees, every day of the year is an auspicious day; one day they honor Shiva, the next day, the Buddha. The foreign spiritual seeker soon discovers that there are more temples, gompas, gurus, sadhus, and rinpoches to choose from than cereal brands in an American supermarket. Some of the many notable authors you will find in Travelers' Tales Nepal include Peter Matthiessen, Jan Morris, Jimmy Carter, and Jeff Greenwald.
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