Where the Indus Is Still Young: Walking to Baltistan (Century Travellers)
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0099898101
ISBN 13
9780099898108
Category
Unknown
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Publication Year
1991
Publisher
Pages
264
Description
One winter, Dervla Murphy, the four-footed Hallam and her six-year-old daughter Rachel explored `Little Tibet' high up in the Karakoram Mountains in the frozen heart of the Western Himalayas - on the Pakistan side of the disputed border with Kashmir. For three months they traveled along the perilous Indus Gorge and into nearby valleys. Even when beset by crumbling tracks over bottomless chasms, an assault by a lascivious dashniri, the unnerving melancholy of the Balts - the heroic highland farmers who inhabit the area - and Rachel's continual probing questions, this formidable traveler retained her enthusiasm for her surroundings and her sense of humor. First published in 1977, Where the Indus is Young is pure Murphy. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
