BRADT TRAVELGUIDES TWO YEAR MOUNTAIN (NEPAL) (9781841623856) IS NIET LEVERBAAR

OMSCHRIJVING

With his life literally hanging from a slender rope over a crevasse near the top of a Himalayan mountain, a young man relives in his mind a relentless two-year physical and spiritual test as a Peace Corps volunteer in a remote mountain village of Nepal. Combining the elements of adventure story, travel log, and personal confession, this absorbing account describes a wrenching experience that belies the idealistic expectations of many Peace Corps volunteers. Following a two-year stint as a science and mathematics teacher in a Nepalese village, Phil Deutschle sets off alone on a three-month expedition to conquer Pharchamo, 20,580 feet high, which has claimed several lives and is his final goal in the Himalayas. This trek forms the framework of the book, and into it Deutschle weaves the story of his experiences over the previous two years in a series of sharply etched, swiftly moving, often humorous anecdotes. Deutschle is not starry-eyed about Nepal and its people or, least of all, about the mission of the Peace Corps. He vividly describes events that are both horrible and poignant: being charged by a rhinoceros, the awful fascination of watching a corpse burn on a funeral pyre, the struggle to save a child's life, scaling a Himalayan peak higher than Mount McKinley (the highest mountain in North America). Despite his difficulties, he steels himself to stay one year, then the full two years, and, imperceptibly, grows so attached to the village that he leaves it in tears. Mourning the "small death" of his departure, confused about his identity as an American, and feeling more alienated than before, he sets off on a final, reckless, solo climb of Mount Pharchamo, hardly caring whether he survives. Apathetic from lack of oxygen and from his own malaise and only when his life literally hangs on a slender rope, does he overcome despair and make a gigantic effort to save himself. The two parts of the book - the emotional challenge of the village and physical challenge of the climb - come together in a triumphant affirmation of life. A native Californian, Phil Deutschle is currently teaching handicapped children in Denmark. The Two Year Mountain was originally published by Bradt in 1986 and remains as relevant to the spirit of exploration and real, raw travel writing today as it was then. - See more at: http://www.bradtguides.com/the-two-year-mountain.html#sthash.9oKu9R7a.dpuf

Bekijk alle Azië, Afrika & Oceanië

PRODUCTINFORMATIE BRADT TRAVELGUIDES TWO YEAR MOUNTAIN (NEPAL)

HET MERK BRADT TRAVELGUIDES

De Engelse uitgever Bradt Travel Guides geeft sinds 1974 een uitstekende serie reisgidsen uit en heeft zich in de wat onbekendere bestemmingen, met name in reisgidsen van Afrika, gespecialiseerd. Alhoewel de Bradt Travelguides gidsen minder gefocust zijn op de laatste prijzen en beste accommodatie, geven ze uitstekende achtergrondinformatie over de geschiedenis , cultuur en wildlife van een bepaalde regio.

Meer

GARANTIE

Of u het product online via de webshop of in onze fysieke winkel gekocht heeft, de garantie is voor Zwerfkei hetzelfde. De garantietermijn kan per product en merk verschillen, van één jaar tot de volledige levensduur van het product. Garantie geldt in principe op alle materiaal- en/of fabricagefouten, en niet op defecten als gevolg van slijtage of verkeerd gebruik. In het geval van garantie wordt het defecte product vervangen, vergoed of hersteld door de fabrikant/importeur of door een professionele en gespecialiseerde reparateur.
Zwerfkei verzorgt de begeleiding en de afhandeling van garantiegevallen voor u. Wij bieden het product na beoordeling ter reparatie aan bij de fabrikant/importeur of één van hun professionele servicediensten. Wij onderhouden goede contacten met onze servicediensten en samen zorgen wij ervoor dat elk defect zo snel mogelijk opgelost wordt.

Meer over garantie en service