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Cargando... Himalaya Bound: One Family's Quest to Save Their Animals--And an Ancient Way of Life (2018)por Michael Benanav
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. The Van Gujjars, are a nomadic people, a people who travel with their water buffalo from the Shiivak Region to the Himalayan plateaus. They travel from place to place, depending on climate, and always with focus on the animals and their needs, fresh grazing land. A way of life threatened now by new policies, ethical and environmental policies, and claimed National Parks. In ironic fashion, the very agency that should be the protectors, the National Parks are instead the harassers wanting them off of Park lands. We learn the way they live their lives, culture, socio economical underpinnings, the importance of their families and there relationship with their animals, Their religion, the are from a tolerant Muslim culture which has drawn the unwelcome attention of the Islamic Foundation. The author was accepted, surprisingly by these people, traveled with them and worked alongside. Shared their happy moments, and from the enclosed photographs their was a whole lot of smiling going on,and their stresses, how they feel about being the last of their culture making this yearly pilgrimage. Such a unique people,hard, hard workers,but so much joy, caring for each other, the family as a unit, was beautiful to read. Was a wonderfully informative read about a unique way of life threatened by progress, or what is seen as progress. The pictures, bg smiles, allows the reader to put faces to those mentioned in the book. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Following his vivid account of traveling with one of the last camel caravans on earth in Men of Salt, Michael Benanav now brings us along on a journey with a tribe of forest-dwelling nomads in India. Welcomed into a family of nomadic water buffalo herders, he joins them on their annual spring migration into the Himalayas. More than a glimpse into an endangered culture, this superb adventure explores the relationship between humankind and wild lands, and the dubious effect of environmental conservation on peoples whose lives are inseparably intertwined with the natural world. --amazon.com No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Michael Benanav is an American journalist and nomad at heart who attached himself to a family of Van Gurjars and followed them on a migration season. It's a remarkable way of life with no technology and everything done by hand, he says the 15 year girls have the strength of Olympians. Nevertheless when they settle in towns they become depressed and wish to return to a nomadic existence. The contrast with modernity is stark, as they migrate up mountain roads trucks fly by horns honking. This is interesting look at a not well known nomadic people who seem to be on the cusp of disappearing, Benanav has done them a great service and an entertaining read. ( )