Table of Contents
Introduction xi
1 First Things 1
2 Portrait of the Pilgrim with Eighty-Eight Toothbrushes 6
3 Levels of Amazement 9
4 The Suli Gad 12
5 A Microdot of the Great Rent 14
6 Circle 16
7 There Is No Problem Here 20
8 Dramatis Personae 26
9 Uplift 30
10 Drift 35
11 Bogu La, 16,959 feet 39
12 On the Trail 44
13 Tokyu Clinic 48
14 Roshi 53
15 Hospice for a Mouse 58
16 Lumber Yaks 62
17 Aunts and Uncles 65
18 Hidden Figure 68
19 Geopoetry 73
20 The Road to Tinje 75
21 Feet 79
22 Tinje R Us 83
23 Strong Back, Soft Front 89
24 Lone Wolf 91
25 An Entire Heaven and an Entire Earth 94
26 Shimen 96
27 Yatra 98
28 The Grandeur Sentence 100
29 The Grandeur of Saldang 105
30 Galapagos 107
31 Invisible 111
32 Mechanism 113
33 Saldang Clinic 115
34 Doing the Math 118
35 Survival of the Sexiest 123
36 The Cranes of Namgung 127
37 Flowing Mountains 130
38 Flowing Seafloor 132
39 Tuzo Wilson 136
40 The Jaramillo Event 139
41 Shey 142
42 Prayer Mills 144
43 Reverie 147
44 The Heist 149
45 Hope 153
46 Tsakang 155
47 Sacred Rage 157
48 Kang La 163
49 Birches 168
50 Snow Leopard 171
51 Amchi 177
52 Yeti 180
53 Clinic Notes 182
54 Kanjiroba 186
55 Cutting Deals 190
56 Hospice 194
57 Rina 199
58 Phoksundo, Again 201
59 Bodhisattva 203
60 On the Trail (2) 207
61 Kora 210
A Note on Place-Names and Language 213
Sources and Suggested Readings 215
Acknowledgments 225
Index 227
About the Author 237