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Horses like lightning : a story of passage through the Himalayas / Sienna Craig.
Van Pelt Library DS495.8.M87 C73 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Craig, Sienna R.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Horses--Social aspects.
- Horses.
- Mustang Region (Nepal)--Social life and customs.
- Mustang Region (Nepal).
- Horses--Social aspects--Nepal--Mustang Region.
- Craig, Sienna R.
- Nepal.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 295 pages : maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Wisdom Publications, [2008]
- Summary:
- At just 19, Sienna Craig made her first venture to Mustang, an ethnically Tibetan area of Nepal, in the rainshadow of the Himalayas. As an equestrian and a budding anthropologist, she sought not only to understand what it was like to rely on horses to navigate through the windswept valleys and plains of High Asia, but also to grasp how horses lent meaning to the lives of the Mustangi people. Through living and working with local Tibetan doctors, veterinarians, and other horse experts, as well as the deep friendships she formed. Sienna began to understand the region's history, and the way life in Mustang was being transformed in the face of tremendous social, political, and economic shifts. She learned much about herself and her life's course through her year in Mustang-a place that came to feel, for all its foreignness, like home.
- Contents:
- Finding Mustang 9
- Come as a Guest, Go as a Friend 19
- The Dancing Yak 35
- The Family God Horse 42
- Keeping Up Appearances 51
- Mustang Elements 61
- Sacrifice at the Jimi Hendrix Restaurant 70
- Scars of Tradition 79
- In the Shadow of Warriors 90
- Royal Mustang Excursions 115
- Heat and Dust 126
- Am I a "Conservation"? 138
- Muledrivers and Kings 148
- Woodsmoke and Radishes 160
- A Ritual, a Birth 173
- National Geographic 187
- A Passing 199
- Stones and Lost Children 206
- The Story of the Ground 215
- To Heal a Horse 221
- An Intimate Distance 237
- Mustang Tour Guide 251
- The Brothers 260
- Ruins 267
- Windhorse 275.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-295).
- ISBN:
- 0861715179
- 9780861715176
- OCLC:
- 213466550
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