Up and Down Asia - Softcover
The author, the medical missionary author of that amazing book of travel and adventure Tibetan Journey (Journey with Loshay) and of that controversial book about his calling, God's Fool, has travelled up and down China, Tibet and northern India and he has often travelled rough. In the course of his wanderings there have been odd meetings with interesting people and bizarre incidents in out-of-the-way places which the subject of his previous books gave him no occasion to record, and many of these encounters with people, places and things are as amusing as they are extraordinary. In Up and Down Asia he has made a book of them. As each episode contains a 'circumstantial solecism,' or incongruity, or entertaining breach in the syntax of his life, he has grouped them under grammatical solecisms. Thus under 'Vehicles I Have Ridden On' we read, for instance, of a flight over flooded tea plantations in an aircraft with no floor-board in its cockpit and with its fabric repaired with a nightgown; or, under 'People I Have Talked with,' of Princess Irene, wife of Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark, or Prince Minwang of the Mongol tribe of Torgut. 'Dilemmas I Have been In' includes secret meetings with the Dalai Lama's eldest brother in flight from the Communists; 'Homes I Have Been to,' a riotous celebration of New Year in Kalimpong with Khamba friends; and 'Situations I have been Embarrassed By,' teaching Tibetans to swim.
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- PublisherThe Long Riders' Guild Press
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1590481933
- ISBN 13 9781590481936
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages160
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