Publisher's Synopsis
Trek with the author to the high Himalayas of Nepal. Admire the amazing stamina and cheerfulness of his Nepalese porters and Sherpas. Watch sunrise illuminate the craggy tips of poetical and spiritual Himalayan mountains and creep down into shadowy valleys in a euphoric experience that can never be forgotten.Share his white-knuckle flight to Skardu in north Pakistan and travel with him on the incomparable Karakoram Highway to fabled Hunza valley in the Karakorum Mountains. Take a bus ride to the breathtaking rice terraces at Banaue and Ifugao in the mountains of the Philippines.Follow the author to Vietnam just after the Vietnam War when thousands were fleeing communism in unsafe boats. His visit to Burma was during a time warp at the very beginning of its tentative move from military dictatorship towards democracy. India's vibrant often chaotic, democracy and institutions were still grappling with their colonial past when the author visited its amazing temples and monuments.Walk the evocative ruins of 4,000-year-old Mohenjo-daro in Pakistan, one of the world's earliest cities that was lost and only re-discovered in the 1920's. Explore the erotic temples at Khajuraho, the amazing rock temples at Ellora and the exquisite cave paintings at Ajanta in India.See how the author handled rock slides on the Karakoram Highway and an encounter with Maoist insurgents in Nepal. In Delhi he was confronted by an angry Indian who accused him of taking photographs for the CIA. A stone was thrown at him in a market in Agra. He became ill in Vietnam and on his trek to Gokyo Ri in the Himalayas.Meet the man who was imprisoned for treasonable writing during India's struggle for independence; and the girl who sang Frere Jacques to him in Burma.
