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Title: Sacred Waters: A Pilgrimage up the Ganges River to the Source of Hindu Culture by Stephen Alter ISBN: 0-15-100585-0 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 17 October, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00

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Summary: Sacred Travel
Comment: Stephen Alter's marvelous book is reminiscent of fine nineteenth century travel writing in which the writer, in lucid, and sometimes poetic, style brings the reader with him to see and experience things most people never would otherwise. His credentials are impeccable: the son of missionaries who was raised in northern India, fluent in Hindi and conversant in other Indian languages and possessed of an encyclopedic knowledge of the flora and fauna of the region. A non believer, he traces the steps of an ancient pilgrimage, feeling the spiritual attraction of the place while wryly commenting on the religious hypocrisy he encounters along the way. For all of its gifts it is the writing that commends this fine book. For the author's wise and seasoned view of the world and understatement of the rigors of his journey I would compare it to Bruce Chatwin's, In Patagonia.

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