
- 223 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
The Waiting Land is an exploration of Nepal by a feisty, generous-hearted young Irish woman in the spring of 1965. The third in a series of books tracing Dervla's involvement with the self-sufficient mountain cultures of the Himalayas, she is lured by the chance to work again with Tibetan refugees - this time a group of five hundred lodged in tents in the remote Pokhara valley. Once established in Kathmandu, and later at home in a tiny, vermin-infested room above a stall in a Nepalese bazaar, she falls under the spell of this ancient land, poised between East and West, between China and India, between Buddhism and Hinduism, yet true to its own distinct civilization. Dervla's understanding of the roots of the Nepalese past, and her own stamina, culminate in an epic trek into the remote Langtang region on the border with Tibet.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Maps
- Dedication
- Prologue
- 1 : The Iron Road to Rexaul
- 2 : Kathmandu
- 3 : Descent on Pokhara
- 4 : Under Machhapuchhare
- 5 : Tibetans on Trek
- 6 : Animal Spirits
- 7 : Conflicting Views
- 8 : A Thief and a Goddess
- 9 : Purifying Spirits
- 10 : On Foot to Langtang
- Epilogue
- Plates
- Copyright