Travels in Nepal: The Sequestered Kingdom

by Charlie Pye-Smith

Genres: Travel, Nonfiction

208 pages, Paperback

First published September 4, 1990

About the author

Charlie Pye-Smith is a writer and broadcaster who has contributed to the BBC, Financial Times, Daily Telegraph and New Scientist, among others. He has written numerous books, including The Facts of Rural Life, The Other Nile, Travels in Nepal, Rebels and Outcasts, In Search of Wild India and The Subsidy Scandal and he co-authored Working the Land and The Wealth of Communities. He is based in London and reports regularly on global farming and environmental issues for international research and development agencies.

Reviews

[Dennis Nord · Rating 3 out of 5]

A rather eccentric fellow who traveled to Nepal and writes well of his experience. If you travel by foot extensively, take his scary language as being overdrawn. I braced for a harrowing day and found myself at my destination and wondered how he might have the life-threatening scramble he described. It is possible the trail was enhanced before I arrived and after his trip, but from the Sherpas I talked to it seems unlikely. Still and fun book in preparation for a trip to Nepal though it is over 20 years old now.