Biography & Autobiography Educators
Under the Holy Lake
A Memoir of Eastern Bhutan
- Publisher
- The University of Alberta Press
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2010
- Category
- Educators, Adventure
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780888644923
- Publish Date
- Jun 2008
- List Price
- $32.99
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780888646330
- Publish Date
- Mar 2010
- List Price
- $9.99
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Description
A child’s face, a forgotten scent, or a distinctive flavour engages memory and inspires longing. Ken Haigh brings us tantalizingly close to his own vision of longing for a place, a people, a time, as he revisits those all-too-fleeting years as a young school teacher in the remote Himalayan village of Khaling, Bhutan. These experiences in an exotic country will leave you yearning for ancient Buddhist temples, winding mountain trails, and a simpler way of life. This memoir will captivate the vicarious traveller in each of us.
About the author
Ken Haigh is a graduate of Queen’s University and the University of Western Ontario, where he studied English literature, education, and library science. In 1987-89, he taught for two years in Khaling Valley in Eastern Bhutan. Ken has also taught in China and in the Canadian Arctic. He lives in Clarksburg, Ontario.
