Etienne Livingstone

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A Brief Escape To Nepal - Etienne Livingstone Nepal, the country of Mount Everest and an essential part of the backpacker's trail, has fascinated Europeans for many years. Etienne Livingstone has trodden its roads, visited its cities and been mesmerised by the country as he records in this compelling and detailed book. It is as much about the history of the country as it is about its geography, with plenty of interesting asides about relationships too. More than that, it is a chronicle of a young man growing into adulthood and using travel to ease the transition, flexing his independence perhaps tentatively but certainly competently. It would be unreasonable to highlight any part of a book which captures the imagination from beginning to end; it is intelligently written by a man who knows his subject intimately, who has carried out the sort of research that makes travel so much more rewarding; the book captures atmosphere remarkably adeptly as well as the more easily described sights and sounds of as alien a country as the average European could expect to visit. This is a more than worthy addition to our range of intelligent travel books which we are happy to recommend highly; it is the amount of background detail that Etienne Livingstone offers that makes his book so very readable. (about 69,000 words) Price: £5.00 Quantity:

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