The author describes her journey with her six-year-old daughter, on foot, to Baltistan, a desolate but beautiful region of Kashmir. Their travels took them into the Karakorum mountains in the heart of the western Himalayas and along the perilous Indus Gorge. Accompanied only by a polo pony and surviving chiefly on the local diet of dried apricots, they endured conditions that tested their limits of ingenuity, fortitude and courage, and, remarkably, managed to retain their good humour. Dervla Murphy's other travel books include "Muddling Through In Madagascar" and "Cameroon With Egbert".
- ISBN10 0099898101
- ISBN13 9780099898108
- Publish Date 4 July 1991
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 August 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Cornerstone
- Imprint Arrow Books Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 264
- Language English