Ganges: Along Sacred Waters

Introduction; 1. From the Glaciers of the Himalayas; 2. The River Turns Its Back on the Mountains; 3. The River's Encounter with the Vast Flatlands; 4. The Sacred Waters of Varanasi; 5. In Featureless Bihar 6. Bengala: Islam Along the Ganges; 7. The Delta's Thousand Fingers.

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India's holiest river, the Ganges, winds some 1,550 miles through the country, from its headwaters in the Himalayan glaciers past the villages and cities of the Gangetic Plain to the Delta's thousand fingers in the Bay of Bengal. Here, Aldo Pavan and his camera trace the route of this sacred river, capturing its beauty and its many different phases and moods.