Ebook: Himalaya bound one family's quest to save their animals - and an ancient way of life

A gorgeous work of literary journalism that follows a nomadic family's fraught migration to the high Himalayan plains in a rapidly changing world.

In the vein of Tim Cope's On the Trail of Genghis Khan and Scott Wallace's The Unconquered, Himalaya Bound tells the story of one man's immersion with a tribe of nomadic water buffalo herders on their annual spring migration into the Himalayas. Even more than a glimpse into a rarely seen and endangered way of life, this beautiful book is an exploration of the relationship between humankind and wild lands and the effect conservation efforts on the species and peoples they are meant to protect.

Michael Benanav, the acclaimed author of Men of Salt, spent forty-four days living, walking, eating, and sleeping alongside the Van Gujjars, a hidden tribe of forest-dwelling nomads in northern India. Over the course of the tribe's annual migration to the Himalayas, Benanav documented their traditional way of life, but there was...