Publisher's Synopsis
During World War II service with the Gurkhas, Harold James had his first sight of the Himalayas. Fifty years later he returned to Nepal and began dreaming of owning a house in the capital, Kathmandu. This account of how the dream was fulfilled is accompanied by descriptions of Nepal and its people, and of the Gurkha soldiers and the war in 1815 that brought about their fierce loyalty to their British conquerors.
