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Horses Like Lightning: A Story of Passage Through the Himalayas is
a work of ethnographic non-fiction that charts the years the
author
spent living in the Himalayan kingdom of Mustang, Nepal. What
began
as a study abroad adventure for this horse girl from California
evolves into an evocative portrait of one of the world’s
most remote locales. It is also a study of Mustang's horse culture,
and the meanings and metaphors revealed through the region's
connections to the equine. The book explores connections across
cultures, languages, and landscapes,
tracing
the trajectories
of the generation
who is inheriting Mustang, as told through the eyes of a young
American woman who lived among the people of this unique region
in the 1990s.
Excerpts from Horses Like Lightning: A Story of Passage Through the Himalayas have appeared in Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, The Explorer’s
Journal, and several ethnographic anthologies and journals.
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