Friends In High Places: A Season In The Himalayas

by Peter Mayne

The friends of the title number two: Jagut and Mussoorie, sons of an exiled Rana Maharaja Marshall of Nepal. The friendship dates from Peter Mayne's own youth in India, where his father had specialised in the education of the sons of the ruling princes.
Mr Mayne has gone back to the Himalayas and back in time, first to the remove mountain estate of Soon Saan, a microcosm with its own fish, flesh, fowls and human beings, all ruled over and cherished by Jagut.
Thence to Kathmandu, ancient capital of Nepal, where his host is Mussoorie.

Genres: Travel, History

320 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1975

About the author

Peter Mayne was born in England in 1908. At the age of twenty he went out to India, where his father was a senior member of the Department of Education. For a while he worked as a mercantile assistant in a firm of merchant-shippers, but he was never a successful businessman. At the time of Partition, the Pakistan Government invited him to serve as Deputy Secretary to the Ministry of Refugees and Rehabilitation. When the tension died down, he resigned from government service and settled in Morocco to write his first book. He died in 1979.