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Alexis Debary The Secret of Srinagar

Travel
English
2646 Words
Ages 12 and up
479
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We cut through the water with hardly a sound while the white bearded mountain faces preside sternly over us. The lake’s surface reflects their grave bulk and the vastness of the blue sky above. It brings to mind an old Chinese saying: “In dreams, mirrors and water one meets the skies and the earth.” In this literary travel essay, poetry meets politics with a personal touch. In face of the theme "freedom" it explores the fact that the path one travels is always more important than reaching one's goal. [more]

Keywords: Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, Indian Occupation, Shikaras, Lake Dal, Pamir Mountains, Hindu Kush Mountains, Sihks, Dal Gate, Floating Gardens, British Raj, vegetable market, floating market

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Alexis Debary Srinagar, im Frühling

Travel
German
3291 Words
Ages 14 and up
103
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Die Himalayische Bergkette gleitet zwischen den aufgebauschten Wolkenschwaden hervor wie neugierige Kindernasen und durchbricht die Gischt, die über den Himmel fegt. Weiße Bergspitzen übertrumpfen sich an Majestät, einer höheren als der Andere, wie die Noten eines Lieds, das immer höher erklingt. Ein Gipfel ist beeindruckender als der Letzte, bis auf einmal ein 8.000 Fuß (2.400 m) hocher Berg, der wie eine Pyramide geformte ist, aus seinem Versteck zum Vorschein tritt. Es ist Habba Khatoon, so genannt in Ehren an die Legende einer schönen Dichterin, die ihn, den Verlust ihres Geliebten beklagend, jahrelang umkreiste. [more]

Keywords: Dal See, Hausboote, Shikara, See der Lotosblüten, Shankaracharya, Jammu und Kashmir, Congdis, Fluss Jhelum, Urdu, Hochebene, Hookah

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Isabella L. Bird The Hawaiian Archipelago

Fiction
English
122946 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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Isabella Lucy Bird married name Bishop (1831 – 1904) was a nineteenth-century English explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist. [more]

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Isabella L. Bird Unbeaten Tracks in Japan

Fiction
English
110552 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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Isabella Lucy Bird married name Bishop (1831 – 1904) was a nineteenth-century English explorer, writer,[1] photographer [2] and [more]

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Isabella L. Bird (Mrs. Bishop) The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither

Travel
English
117699 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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Isabella Lucy Bird married name Bishop (1831 – 1904) was a nineteenth-century English explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist. [more]

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Rosie Thomas The Kashmir Shawl

A Novel

Family & Relationships
English
2 Words
No Age Recommendation
1119
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For more than three decades, Rosie Thomas has enthralled readers around the world. Now, in The Kashmir Shawl, her most ambitious book yet, Thomas sweeps through time and place, and her readers will discover in this novel a captivating, romantic epic--an irresistible story of enduring love and memory. It is the eve of 1941 and World War II is engulfing the globe. Newlywed Nerys Watkins leaves rural Britain to accompany her husband on a missionary posting to India, but when he leaves her in the exotic lakeside of Srinagar to take on a complicated mission elsewhere, she discovers a new world. Here, in the heart of Kashmir, the British dance, flirt, and gossip against the backdrop of war and Nerys soon becomes caught up in a dangerous liaison. By the time she is reunited with her husband, she is a very different woman. . Years later, Nery’s granddaughter Mair Ellis clears out her dead father’s house and finds an exquisite shawl--a kaleidoscope of silvery blues and greens. Wrapped in the folds of this delicate object is a lock of a child’s curly hair. With nothing else to go on, Mair decides to trace her roots back to Kashmir, embarking on a quest that will change her own life forever. . [more]

Keywords: romance, army, military, historical fiction, contemporary fiction, women's fiction, best-seller, 5-star, Rosie Thomas, best selling author, chick-lit

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