Tony Robinson-Smith

The Dragon Run

Two Canadians, Ten Bhutanese, One Stray Dog

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Tony Robinson-Smith, his wife Nadya, and ten Bhutanese college students set out to run 578 kilometres (360 miles) across the Kingdom of Bhutan in the Himalayas. Joined by a stray dog, they slogged over five mountain passes, bathed in ice-clogged streams, ate over log fires, and stopped at every store, restaurant, guesthouse, and dzong to raise money for the Tarayana Foundation. The Tara-thon was the first endeavour of its kind and gave 350 village children the chance to go to school. En route, the Long Distance Dozen met a Buddhist lama, a royal prince, a Tibetan renegade, and a matriarch who told them the secret to long life. On arrival in T… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-77212-351-7
EAN: 9781772123517
Produktnummer: 34611213
Verlag: University of Alberta Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 257 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 29'894 KB

Über den Autor

British by origin, Canadian by marriage, Tony Robinson-Smith chronicled his adventures circling the earth without using aircraft in Back in 6 Years (Goose Lane Editions). Tony now teaches and runs in Fredericton, New Brunswick.