Blue Sky Kingdom: An Epic Family Journey To The Heart Of The Himalaya

byBruce Kirkby

August 29, 2020|
Blue Sky Kingdom: An Epic Family Journey To The Heart Of The Himalaya by Bruce Kirkby
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this isn’t how he wants to liveWithin days, plans begin to take shape. Bruce, his wife Christine, and their two children—seven-year-old Bodi and three-year-old Taj—will cross the Pacific by container ship, then travel onward through South Korea, China, India and Nepal aboard bus, riverboat and train, eventually traversing the Himalaya by foot. Their destination: a thousand-year-old Buddhist monastery in the remote Zanskar valley, one of the last places where Tibetan Buddhism is still practised freely in its original setting.Taken into the mud-brick home of a senior lama, Tsering Wangyal, the family spends the summer absorbed by monastery life. In this refuge, where ancient traditions intersect with the modern world, Bruce discovers ways to slow down, to observe and listen, and ultimately, to better understand his son on the autism spectrum—to surrender all expectations and connect with Bodi exactly as he is.Blue Sky Kingdom
Bruce Kirkby is a wilderness writer and adventure photographer recognized for connecting wild places with contemporary issues. With journeys spanning more than eighty countries and thirty years, Kirkby’s accomplishments include the first modern crossing of Arabia’s Empty Quarter by camel, a descent of Ethiopia’s Bl...
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Title:Blue Sky Kingdom: An Epic Family Journey To The Heart Of The Himalaya
Format:Hardcover
Product dimensions:336 pages, 9.25 X 6.5 X 1.1 in
Shipping dimensions:336 pages, 9.25 X 6.5 X 1.1 in
Published:August 29, 2020
Publisher:Douglas And McIntyre (2013) Ltd.
Language:English
Appropriate for ages:All ages
ISBN - 13:9781771622691

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