Critically-Acclaimed Yak Butter Blues: A Tibetan Trek of Faith by Brandon Wilson Called a "Whooping Good Read" by Royal Robbins, Legendary Mountaineer
Yak Butter Blues: A Tibetan Trek of Faith, the new critically-acclaimed Tibet adventure book by Brandon Wilson, has been called a "whooping good read" by Royal Robbins, legendary mountaineer. He continued, ""Any doubts I had about reading Yak Butter Blues melted away like yak butter under a hot sun as I came under the spell of Brandon Wilson's lively and vivid prose. He is a fine writer, perceptive, funny, and has a great way with words, making the book a whooping good read--an outstanding production."
(PRWEB) May 3, 2005 -- "Yak Butter Blues: A Tibetan Trek of Faith," the new
critically-acclaimed Tibet adventure book by Brandon Wilson, has been called a
"Whooping Good Read" by Royal Robbins.
The legendary
mountaineer/adventure kayaker continued, "Any doubts I had about reading Yak
Butter Blues melted away like yak butter under a hot sun as I came under the
spell of Brandon Wilson's lively and vivid prose. He is a fine writer,
perceptive, funny, and has a great way with words, making the book a whooping
good read--an outstanding production."
Yak Butter Blues is an inspiring,
new adventure book of Tibetan survival. Author Brandon Wilson with his wife
Cheryl bravely challenge the "impossible" and set off on an incredible
1000-kilometer (650-mile) journey–on foot across Tibet. Join their adventure
from Lhasa to Kathmandu, as they become the first Western couple to ever make
this perilous trek across the unforgiving Himalayan plains.
Alone, with
only their Tibetan horse Sadhu, the Wilsons face Tibet's ruthless environment
head-on: the blistering winds, extreme temperatures, sandstorms, blizzards, high
altitudes and the thinnest of air–made all the more challenging by exhaustion,
hunger, illness, inflexible bureaucrats and implacable, trigger-happy Chinese
soldiers.
Yak Butter Blues is a story of faith--and the kindness of
strangers. Although the land and climate leaves its imprint daily, an even more
lasting impression on these adventurers is created by Tibetan pilgrims, monks
and generous villagers eager to share what little they possess: yak butter tea,
the warmth of their family's fire, camaraderie and a steadfast trust in the
Dalai Lama's return.
Yak Butter Blues is a tale of personal
enlightenment. The couple is an invaluable witness to a Tibetan culture pushed
to the brink of extinction by occupation for over fifty years. They also
discover the human link connecting us all, a link that becomes clearest on a
trek that removes the distractions of modern life as it unveils the truths of
"deliberate travel." In doing so, the couple discovers a sense of greater
purpose, wonder, a renewed faith and ultimately what it takes to
endure.
Wilson leads you along on their physical, spiritual and emotional
pilgrimage, through the highs and lows, across this startling land in this
colorful, candid, caring and classic tale, Yak Butter Blues: a Tibetan Trek of
Faith.
For a preview, visit http://www.YakButterBlues.com.
Early
Reviews:
"Brandon Wilson's writing is charged, alive, and a little
threatening. Yak Butter Blues flickers insistently like a flashbulb afterimage
in the mind long after the book is tucked away…." ~ Richard Bangs, Executive
Producer/Director of MSNBC Great Escapes, author and co-founder of Mountain
Travel/Sobek
"…A soaring travel diary. It places the reader in the thick
of the action every bit as well as Marco Polo transported Italians to China and,
as it seems to me, better than Lowell Thomas led readers in the dust of Lawrence
of Arabia…" ~ Joseph W. Bean, Book Reviewer, Maui Weekly
(Hawaii)
"Recommended for adventure travel and Tibetan culture
collections." - Library Journal
"A moving and emotional testimony, and a
travelogue that is the next most vivid experience to hiking upon the trail
oneself." ~ Midwest Book Review
"…a high-altitude tale of synchronicity,
divine providence, begging monks, trigger-happy Chinese soldiers and
dehydration." ~ Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PA) from a feature
article
"Brandon Wilson is masterful in describing the hardships and
trials of his 650-mile journey across Tibet. He's equally adept at describing
this harsh yet wondrous, high landscape known as the "roof of the world." Wilson
is at his best, however, when he talks about the enchanting warmth of the
Tibetan people who, as he and his wife crossed on foot, took them into their
homes and shared their culture. Hardly a holiday sightseeing safari, Wilson
calls his trek a "walking meditation" in which the couple sees through the dust
storms and freezing winds to learn the good will and kindness that has survived
generations of oppression. In this strange paradise, Wilson finds commonality
with the Tibetans, yet mourns the continuing disappearance of their culture,
noting that soon little will remain of it but their ancient yak butter tea.
Fortunately, so will his book. ~Andrew F. O'Hara, author of The Swan: Tales Of
The Sacramento Valley
"A 600-mile foot slog through Tibet in which you
can almost smell the dust and feel the blisters. Worth a read by any adventure
or travel-trekking novel enthusiast." ~ Backpacking Light Magazine, Spring
2005
"…an awesome (in that old-fashioned use of the word) tale of a
couple who walked 1,000 kilometers across some of the most climate –unfriendly
parts of the world, an ancient pilgrimage trail that is rated impossible even by
the most intrepid…Brave believing people on both sides of this trek…and a tale
that deserves the telling." ~ Marilis Hornidge, The Courier-Gazette
(Maine)
About the Author:
Brandon Wilson is an internationally
published adventure-travel writer and award-winning photographer. An explorer
and expert long-distance ultralight trekker, he is passionate about inspiring
others with the possibility of discovery through long-distance
hiking.
Although already a voracious explorer of over ninety countries,
this Tibetan odyssey opened his eyes to the deep satisfaction of traveling
"one-step-at-a-time."
By slowing down, he believes, "We absorb the hidden
‘magic’ in the world. We travel outside— while traveling
within."
Wilson’s photographs have won awards from National Geographic
Traveler and Islands magazines.
Author available for interviews. Please
contact Pilgrim's Tales.
Yak Butter Blues: A Tibetan Trek of Faith by
Brandon Wilson
288 pages, Travel Narrative/Non-Fiction, 27 duo-tone
photographs & maps;
Trade paperback - ISBN: 1-933037-24-5 *
$16.98;
Hardcover - ISBN: 1-933037-23-7 * $26.98
An imprint of Pilgrim’s
Tales.
Distributed by Ingram and Baker & Taylor.
Available at
bookstores, YakButterBlues.com, Amazon.com, BN.com, Borders.com, Amazon-Canada,
Blackwell's (UK), CDbox.it (EU), McGovern & Prentice's New Zealand Online
Books, Seekbooks.au (Australia), or Amazon-Japan.
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