All the Way to Heaven: An American Boyhood in the Himalayas de Stephen Alter, Stephen Alter - 1997-04-01

Penguin India. Paperback. NEW. A loving tribute to a unique upbringing When Stephen Alter is asked the simple question Where are you from, originally? he hesitates. Although he is in almost every way an American"granted with a trace of British accent"he has an unexpected reply: My real home was in India, a hill station called Mussoorie, seven and a half thousand feet up the Himalayas. That was where I was born and raised, in a section known as Landour... It is a landscape, and a time, that haunts him still: I miss the place itself; the mountains, the view of the high Himalayas beyond Mussoorie, stretching all the way to heaven. The son and grandson of Presbytarian missionaries living in India for more than half a century, every day Alter straddled the profound boundary between utterly different peoples, cultures, languages and religions. He and his brothers spoke a pidgin dialect of Hindustani and English as young boys, fished in the rivers Song, Ganga and the Jumna, and later hunted for barking… Leer más

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New Delhi: Penguin Books India, 1997. Paperback. Covers and page block are lightly marked. Leading corners, edges and spine ends are lightly bumped and worn. Rear upper leading corner is creased, slightly affecting closing pages. Light creases on early pages. Binding is visible on title page but remains intact. Pages are clean and text is clear throughout. HCW. paperback. Good. Used.

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