Blue Sky Kingdom: An Epic Family Journey to the Heart of the Himalayas
Bruce Kirkby
A warm and unforgettable portrait of a family letting go of the known world to encounter an unfamiliar one filled with rich possibilities and new understandings.Bruce Kirkby had fallen into a pattern of looking mindlessly at his phone for hours, flipping between emails and social media, ignoring his children and wife and everything alive in his world, when a thought struck him. This wasn't living; this wasn't him. This moment of clarity started a chain reaction which ended with a grand plan: he was going to take his wife and two young sons, jump on a freighter and head for the Himalaya.In *Blue Sky Kingdom,* we follow Bruce and his family's remarkable three months journey, where they would end up living amongst the Lamas of Zanskar Valley, a forgotten appendage of the ancient Tibetan empire, and one of the last places on earth where Himalayan Buddhism is still practiced freely in its original setting.Richly evocative, *Blue Sky Kingdom* explores...
الفئات:
عام:
2020
الناشر:
Pegasus Books
اللغة:
english
ISBN 10:
1643135694
ISBN 13:
9781643135694
ملف:
FB2 , 12.07 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 2020
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