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Covering a broad spectrum of themes that delve into literature, history, culture and politics, these narratives present an intimate view that differs from stereotypical musings on mountains.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNamita Gokhale writes about returning home to the Kumaon Himalayas to search for calm and meditative silence, while Agha Shahid Ali’s poems long for the solace once provided by his home in the Kashmir valley. Jamling Norgay risks everything to retrace his father’s historic journey to the top of the world, and David Tomory reminisces about the seventies and his rock and roll youth in Mc Leodganj. Ruskin Bond shares his passion for the great trees of the mountains, even as Suketu Mehta points out the hazards of their rapid depletion and exploitation. 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Fishlock's fans will find here all the virtues that have made his previous books so widely read and loved: the quiet humor, a beguiling eye always on the look out for the strange and quirky; and most of all, a self-deprecating harm that is uniquely his own.-William Darlymple\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat makes Fishlock's narration delightful is his keen observation of detail, his irreverence, his evenhandedness.  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