Nanda Devi Affair Aitken Bill
Nanda Devi Affair Aitken Bill There is a kind of brotherhood between man and mountains.... In this sequel to his first book for Penguin, Seven Sacred Rivers, he talks of his second great…
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Nanda Devi Affair Aitken Bill
There is a kind of brotherhood between man and mountains.... In this sequel to his first book for Penguin, Seven Sacred Rivers, he talks of his second great obsession"Nanda Devi, patron Goddess of Kumaon and Garhwal. The inescapable logic of desire leaves the mountain traveller no choice but to plan his next expedition to the very peak that may have just rejected vociferously the most singleminded of advances.' In his thirty-year sojourn in India, Bill Aitken has had two serious affairs"one, essentially spiritual in nature, with the country's rivers, the other more earthy and passionate, with her mountains.
Accordingly, what he gives us is, in his own words, Spanning more than a decade, from the Seventies to the Eighties, Aitken's attempts to explore the sanctuary of this most beautiful of Himalayan peaks were not, he admits, those of a professional mountaineer, but of a romantic.
I, Phoolan Devi Phoolan Devi
Nanda Keshavarz Fariba
Devi BD
Nanda Vigo Meneguzzo Marco
Handsome Nanda Covill Linda
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Marmalade Diaries Aitken Ben
Truth/Untruth Devi Mahasweta