High: A Journey Across The Himalaya: Book Review
Book title: High: A Journey Across the Himalaya, Through Pakistan, India, Bhutan, Nepal, and China Book author: Erika Fatland Translator: Kari Dickland Identity is created by boundaries and encounters with “another”. In this six hundred pages long travel book, anthropologist Erika Fatland transports the readers to the Himalayas spreading over five nations and countless cultures. The Himalayas are an attractive destination for many, including me. The gigantic mountain range homes many different cultures, with rich heritage and history. Travelling in modern days, sometimes the local populations' lives and histories get past our tourist sunglasses. Erika wanted to bring these to daylight. She shared how she travelled around the Himalayas, how she met and interacted with the locals, shared a brief history of the local population and gave us a picture of the culture to this date. The book starts with Erika trying to get a visa to enter India and Pakistan. She stressed the point tha...
