Footloose in the Himalaya

Footloose in the Himalaya
Author: Bill Aitken
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2003
Genre: Himalaya Mountains Region
ISBN: 9788178240527

For Aitken, Travel In The Himalaya Is As Much About The Spirit As About Landscapes, Leeches, And Aching Knees. His Intimate Knowledge Of The Himalaya, Absorbed Through A Lifetime Makes This Volume More A Native`S Account Than A Traveller`S.

Touching Upon the Himalaya

Touching Upon the Himalaya
Author: Bill Aitken
Publisher: Indus Publishing
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2004
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9788173871696

Author's travel through the Himalaya Mountains Region in India.

The Nanda Devi Affair

The Nanda Devi Affair
Author: Bill Aitken
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Total Pages: 218
Release: 1994
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780140240450

Author's travel impressions of Uttar Khand Region and Hindu shrines in the region.

The Shooting Star

The Shooting Star
Author: Shivya Nath
Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2018-09-14
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9353052653

Shivya Nath quit her corporate job at age twenty-three to travel the world. She gave up her home and the need for a permanent address, sold most of her possessions and embarked on a nomadic journey that has taken her everywhere from remote Himalayan villages to the Amazon rainforests of Ecuador. Along the way, she lived with an indigenous Mayan community in Guatemala, hiked alone in the Ecuadorian Andes, got mugged in Costa Rica, swam across the border from Costa Rica to Panama, slept under a meteor shower in the cracked salt desert of Gujarat and learnt to conquer her deepest fears. With its vivid descriptions, cinematic landscapes, moving encounters and uplifting adventures, The Shooting Star is a travel memoir that maps not just the world but the human spirit.

Teaching and Advocating to Prepare Student Leaders for a Diverse Workplace

Teaching and Advocating to Prepare Student Leaders for a Diverse Workplace
Author: Mary Alice Trent
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2024-10-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1036411745

Each contributing author offers a unique perspective from their specific college discipline. Some of the scholarly essays focus on issues of health and wellbeing during the COVID crisis and what college educators can learn from those experiences to better equip them for handling such disruptions in the future. Other contributing authors focus on diversity of race and gender by exploring injustices as revealed in ethnic and minority literature and gender-focused literature. Some scholarly essays reveal how teaching foreign languages can foster a diversity consciousness in students and expose them to cultural experiences and cross-cultural communication of diverse people around the world. Some of the contributing authors use their agency to advocate for access for students who have experienced underrepresentation and to promote building an inclusive multicultural campus. Students with developed critical thinking skills, collaborative skills, and cultural intelligence will be prepared for leadership stateside and abroad.

Footloose in the Himalaya

Footloose in the Himalaya
Author: Mike Harding
Publisher: Viking Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 1991
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9780718134716

A British television performer recounts his journey through the Himalaya Mountains to Zanskar and Ladakh, India, and to Nepal, in search of evidence of environmental damage from outside contact

Himalaya

Himalaya
Author: Ruskin Bond
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2018-06-05
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0834841533

Intimate, exhilarating writings on adventure, meditation, and life in the captivating wildness of the Himalayan Mountains—with contributions from Amitav Ghosh, Mark Twain, Rabindranath Tagore, Peter Matthiessen, and more. For some, the Himalaya is a frontier against which people test themselves. Others find refuge and tranquility in the mountains, a place where they can seek their true selves, perhaps even God. Over millennia, the mountains have cradled civilization itself and nurtured teeming, irrepressible life. With over thirty essays, this exhilarating anthology offers a dazzling range of voices that reveal accounts of great ascents and descents—from reflecting on a deadly avalanche to searching for a snow leopard and enjoying the simple pleasure of riding a handcar down a railway track. These diverse writings bring to life the spirit of the Himalaya in an unparalleled panorama. Contributors include: Amitav Ghosh Mark Twain Rabindranath Tagore Peter Matthiessen Edmund Hillary Aleister Crowley Andrew Harvey Vicki Mackenzie Sarat Chandra Das H. A. Giles (Trans.) Jahangir Sven Hedin Frank S. Smythe Anil Yadav Jinasena Arundhathi Subramaniam Dharamvir Bharati Swami Vivekananda Rahul Sankrityayan Francis Younghusband Ruskin Bond Jemima Diki Sherpa Kirin Narayan Jawaharlal Nehru Abdul Wahid Radhu Jim Corbett Bill Aitken Hridayesh Joshi Dom Moraes Manjushree Thapa