Rungli-Rungliot - thus far and no further. [An account of some months spent at a village in the Himalayas]

by Rumer Godden

Book, 1946

Status

Available

Call number

915.42

Publication

British publishers Guild London, 1946, orig 1943. 94 p. ; 8vo.

Media reviews

Wings - The Literary Guild Review
The author of Take Three Tenses spent a year, 1942-3, in a bungalow high in the Himalayas on a tea plantation. She expected to find loneliness in her retreat - but mountains, clouds and space were her companions. A great simplicity and calmness pervades this, her journal, and it is transmitted to
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the reader. Those who like to read of a strange life in a remote country will be charmed by this book.
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User reviews

LibraryThing member Mary_Charlotte
"Rungli-Rungliot means in Paharia" begins the title. Rumer Godden spent several months in a bungalow (Chinglam) on a spine of the upper Himalayas; this is her story of the life she found there.

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Physical description

xiv, 196 p.; 21 cm
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