Ylitse taivaan ja maan
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9513117340
Publish date: 2000
Publisher: Tammi
Pages no: 399
Edition language: Finnish
Category:
Adventure,
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Culture,
Asia,
Biography Memoir
The author speaks of her personal experiences as a teacher in Bhutan and how this changed who she was and what she did with her life. I have never run into someone who had such a hard time with change, even those changes she herself chose! There is an awful lot of worrying and whining in these chapt...
Jamie Zeppa is at loose ends. Almost impulsively, she decides to move to Bhutan and teach.She almost as quickly regrets her decision. No convenience foods here. Minimal toilet facilities. Great poverty. Friends are all far, far away.Zeppa wants to go home to Canada.But she doesn’t. And, as time goes...
This book is a gem. When Jamie Zeppa tires of her doctoral studies and ponders whether the world might offer something more, she spots an announcement for a teaching opportunity near Tibet. The book Zeppa creates about her experience in Bhutan represents travel writing at its best. In theory, travel...
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