There Are Other Rivers
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There Are Other Rivers
Alastair Humphreys walked across India, from the Coromandel Coast to the Malabar Coast, following the course of a holy river. Walking alone and spending the nights sleeping under the stars, in the homes of welcoming strangers or in small towns and villages, he experienced the dusty enchantment of or...
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Author Note
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The Last Day: to the Sea
The Last Day: to the Sea
“Each day looks as beautiful as the roads that lead to the sea.”
“Beep... beepbeepb...
The Last Day: to the Source
The Last Day: to the Source
“I know that it might be better for you to come out from under your might-have-beens, into the winds...
Nightfall
Nightfall
“When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would...
Freedom
Freedom
“But the word timshel – “thou mayest” – that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says...
Sunset
Sunset
“Better a thousand times that he should be a tramp, and mend pots and pans by the wayside, and sleep under trees, and see...
Struggle
Struggle
“You can boast about anything if it’s all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.”
...
Challenge
Challenge
“You’re too young a man to be panning memories, Adam. You should be getting yourself some new ones, so that the mining...
Afternoon
Afternoon
“I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights...
Quest
Quest
“If one were properly to perform a difficult and subtle act, he should first inspect the end to be achieved and then, once...
Pilgrimage
Pilgrimage
“We are the Pilgrims, master; we shall go Always a little further: it may be
Beyond the last blue mountain barr...
Religion
Religion
“I have no bent towards gods. But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul.”
Noon
Noon
“And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost al...
People
People
“I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.”
The people I meet are a highlig...
Joy
Joy
“Every man has a retirement picture in which he does those things he never had time to do – makes the journeys, reads the neg...
Landscape
Landscape
“And then – the glory – so that a cricket song sweetens his ears, the smell of the earth rises chanting to his nose, an...
Learning
Learning
“And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.”
Food
Food
“What does a man need, really need? A few pounds of food each day, heat and shelter, six feet to lie down in and some form o...
Curiosity
Curiosity
“I’ve never been content to pass a stone without looking under it. And it is a black disappointment to me that I can ne...
Morning
Morning
“And again there are mornings when ecstasy bubbles in the blood, and the stomach and chest are tight and electric with jo...
Snapshot
Snapshot
“The Earth teaches us more about ourselves than all the books in the world.”
All the clichés about...
Alone
Alone
“All great and precious things are lonely.”
Odd choice, India, if I wanted to be alone. But being alon...
Simplicity
Simplicity
“Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without.”
...
Escape
Escape
“For it is said that humans are never satisfied, that you give them one thing and they want something more. And this is sa...
Sunrise
Sunrise
“And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to. And there were no limits to anything. And the people of the w...
Routine
Routine
“It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.”
People looking at me walk...
River
River
“Don’t you dare take the lazy way... Whatever you do, it will be you who do.”
I push through a bamboo...
Go
Go
“The virus of restlessness begins to take possession of a wayward man, and the road away from here seems broad and straight an...
Flabbiness
Flabbiness
“You know how advice is: you only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyways.”
There...
Dawn
Dawn
“It was a morning like other mornings and yet perfect among mornings.”
I walk quietly past the night wa...
The Walk
The Walk
“You can boast about anything if it’s all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.”
...
Introduction
Introduction
“Beginning has the pleasure of a great stretching yawn; it flashes in the brain and the whole world glows outside yo...
Author's Note
“Maatraan thottathu malligaikku manam irukkum.”
“The far-off jasmine flower smells sweeter.”
Author’s Note
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There Are Other Rivers
Alastair Humphreys walked across India, from the Coromandel Coast to the Malabar Coast, following the course of a holy river. Walking alone and spendi...