Research Catalog

Title

High : a journey across the Himalaya, through Pakistan, India, Bhutan, Nepal and China / Erika Fatland ; translated By Kari Dickson.

Author

Fatland, Erika, 1983-

Publication

• New York, NY : Pegasus Books, 2023.
• ©2023

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Details

Additional Authors

Dickson, Kari

Description

578 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps; 24 cm

Summary

An ambitious and magnificent new travelogue by bestselling and prize-winning author Erika Fatland (The Border and Sovietistan), on a journey along the Himalaya. The Himalaya weave through five very different countries, where the world religions of Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism are mixed with ancient shamanic religions. Countless languages and vastly different cultures live in the secluded mountain valleys. Modernity and tradition collide, while the great powers fight for influence. We have read about mountain climbers on their way up Mount Everest and about travellers on the spiritual quest for Buddhist monasteries. But how much do we know about the people living in the Himalaya? Fatland invites us into close encounters with the many peoples of the region, and at the same time takes us on a dizzying journey at altitude through incredible landscapes and dramatic, unknown world histories - all the way to the most volatile human conflicts of our times.

Uniform Title

Høyt. English

Alternative Title

• Høyt.
• Journey across the Himalaya, through Pakistan, India, Bhutan, Nepal and China

Subject

• Fatland, Erika, 1983- > Travel > Himalaya Mountains
• Fatland, Erika, 1983- > Travel > Himalaya Mountains Region
• Manners and customs
• Travel
• Himalaya Mountains > Description and travel
• Himalaya Mountains > Social life and customs
• Himalaya Mountains Region > Description and travel
• Himalaya Mountains Region > Social life and customs
• Himalaya Mountains
• Himalaya Mountains Region
• Asia

Genre/Form

Travel writing.

Note

• First published in Norwegian as: Høyt : en reise i Himalaya. Oslo : Kagge Forlag, 2020.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 574-578).

Language (note)

• Text in English, translated from the Norwegian.

Contents

First stage -- The new Silk Road -- High stakes -- Family planning in fairyland -- Feast and fast -- Love in the time of the Taliban -- Border crossing -- Paradise with a curfew -- The highest battlefield in the world -- Of gods and men -- Little Tibet -- Emptiness and the pursuit of radio waves -- The source -- Champagne of the mountains -- The princess without a kingdom -- Naked treasures -- The secretive forest ranger -- Gross national happiness -- India's wild east -- For tomorrow -- Second stage -- Child goddesses -- Busy at the top -- Stories from the capital -- The prince who did not want to be king -- The snow leopard -- The thirsty god -- Terra nullis -- The lost congregation -- The middle of the world -- The Chinese concubine -- Scheduled flight to Shangri-La -- Kingdom of women.

Call Number

JFE 23-1700

ISBN

• 9781639363360
• 163936336X

OCLC

1330894571

Author

Fatland, Erika, 1983- author.

Title

High : a journey across the Himalaya, through Pakistan, India, Bhutan, Nepal and China / Erika Fatland ; translated By Kari Dickson.

Publisher

New York, NY : Pegasus Books, 2023.

Copyright Date

©2023

Edition

First Pegasus Books Cloth Edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 574-578).

Language

Text in English, translated from the Norwegian.

Added Author

Dickson, Kari, translator.

Research Call Number

JFE 23-1700