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Availability:In StockContributor:Bruce KirkbyPublish date:2022-07-08Pages:352
Language:EnglishPublisher:Pegasus BooksISBN-13:9781643139517ISBN-10:1643139517UPC:9781643139517Book Category:Travel, Family & RelationshipsBook Subcategory:Special Interest, Autism Spectrum Disorders, AsiaBook Topic:Family, India & South AsiaSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.88 inchesWeight:0.9414Product ID:SCE891SV1E

Bruce Kirkby had fallen into a pattern of looking mindlessly at his phone for hours, flipping between emails and social media, ignoring his children and wife and everything alive in his world, when a thought struck him. This wasn't living; this wasn't him. This moment of clarity started a chain reaction which ended with a grand plan: he was going to take his wife and two young sons, jump on a freighter and head for the Himalaya.

In Blue Sky Kingdom, we follow Bruce and his family's remarkable three months journey, where they would end up living amongst the Lamas of Zanskar Valley, a forgotten appendage of the ancient Tibetan empire, and one of the last places on earth where Himalayan Buddhism is still practiced freely in its original setting.

Richly evocative, Blue Sky Kingdom explores the themes of modern distraction and the loss of ancient wisdom coupled with Bruce coming to terms with his elder son's diagnosis on the Autism Spectrum. Despite the natural wonders all around them at times, Bruce's experience will strike a chord with any parent-from rushing to catch a train with the whole family to the wonderment and beauty that comes with experience the world anew with your children.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Pegasus BooksISBN-13:9781643139517ISBN-10:1643139517UPC:9781643139517Book Category:Travel, Family & RelationshipsBook Subcategory:Special Interest, Autism Spectrum Disorders, AsiaBook Topic:Family, India & South AsiaSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.88 inchesWeight:0.9414Product ID:SCE891SV1E
Bruce Kirkby is a Canadian writer, photographer and adventurer whose journeys span 80 countries and include traversing Iceland by foot, Mongolia by horseback, Arabia by camel and the Blue Nile Gorge by raft. Along the way he's been shot at in Borneo, taken hostage in Ethiopia, and imprisoned by Myanmar's army. His writing has appeared in publications including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Outside Magazine. He is listed among 'the nation's top modern day explorers' by Canadian Geographic.
Publisher: Pegasus Books

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