Against a Peacock Sky
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1993
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Penguin Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-14-013908-2 (ISBN)
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978-0-14-013908-2 (ISBN)
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In the mountain valleys of Nepal, rural communities continue to eke out a living against a landscape at once harsh and magnificent. This is the story of Monica Connell's friendships and adventures - boar hunting with the village men in midwinter, celebrating the full moon festival and trekking.
In the high mountains valleys of Nepal, tiny rural communities continue to eke out a living against a landscape at once harsh and magnificent. An cient traditions endure, changing little from generation to generation. For these people the valley in which they live defines the extent of their known world and everything within that world is patterned and coloured by the perasive presence - now angry, now benign, always mysterious - of the local gods. This is the story of Monica Connell's friendships and adventures - boar hunting with the village men in midwinter, celebrating the full moon festival, trekking for miles to a traditional Hindu wedding and of the more prosaic realities of the subsistence farmer's life - washing in incy water, being plagued by flies and working on the land for as long as the light lasts.
In the high mountains valleys of Nepal, tiny rural communities continue to eke out a living against a landscape at once harsh and magnificent. An cient traditions endure, changing little from generation to generation. For these people the valley in which they live defines the extent of their known world and everything within that world is patterned and coloured by the perasive presence - now angry, now benign, always mysterious - of the local gods. This is the story of Monica Connell's friendships and adventures - boar hunting with the village men in midwinter, celebrating the full moon festival, trekking for miles to a traditional Hindu wedding and of the more prosaic realities of the subsistence farmer's life - washing in incy water, being plagued by flies and working on the land for as long as the light lasts.
Learning to understand a cattle owner; the full-moon festival and the story of the Masta Gods; four seasons with the sheep; when Sigarup fell ill; phases of the monsoon; Saun Sankranti; the Karaso; the red bitch; two generations of hunting; sometimes we'll laugh and sometimes we'll cry.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.1.1993 |
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Reihe/Serie | Penguin Travel Library |
Zusatzinfo | glossary, b&w photographs |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 128 x 198 mm |
Gewicht | 179 g |
Themenwelt | Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Asien |
ISBN-10 | 0-14-013908-7 / 0140139087 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-14-013908-2 / 9780140139082 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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