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The Waiting Land: A Spell in Nepal

The Waiting Land: A Spell in Nepal

Paperback

Travel GeneralGeneral AsiaIndia & South Asia

ISBN10: 1906011656
ISBN13: 9781906011659
Publisher: Eland Publishing
Published: Jun 16 2026
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

The Waiting Land is an exploration of Nepal by a feisty, generous-hearted young Irish woman in the spring of 1965. The third in a series of books tracing Dervla's involvement with the self-sufficient mountain cultures of the Himalayas, she is lured by the chance to work again with Tibetan refugees - this time a group of five hundred lodged in tents in the remote Pokhara valley. Once established in Kathmandu, and later at home in a tiny, vermin-infested room above a stall in a Nepalese bazaar, she falls under the spell of this ancient land, poised between East and West, between China and India, between Buddhism and Hinduism, yet true to its own distinct civilization. Dervla's understanding of the roots of the Nepalese past, and her own stamina, culminate in an epic trek into the remote Langtang region on the border with Tibet.

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