Ken Haigh
Auteur de Under the Holy Lake: A Memoir of Eastern Bhutan
A propos de l'auteur
Ken Haigh is a graduate of Queen's University and the University of Western Ontario
Œuvres de Ken Haigh
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Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1962
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Canada
- Lieux de résidence
- Ontatio, Canada
- Études
- (MA|English)
- Professions
- librarian
- Courte biographie
- (fl. 2017-2021).
Membres
Critiques
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 2
- Aussi par
- 5
- Membres
- 15
- Popularité
- #708,120
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 5
Haigh does not romanticize Bhutan and he notes the poverty, unemployment, alcoholism, disease and other problems he observed there. But his great affection for the country is evident in his delightful descriptions of the polite, kind, generous people he encountered everywhere and the beautiful landscape and the "villages strung along the river like pearls on a thread of silver."
Illustrated with black-and-white photographs, this book is sure to please anyone interested in Bhutan or travel narratives in general.… (plus d'informations)