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The author journeys into remote northern highlands, traveling with mountaineers and gendarmes to visit hidden tribes and prehistoric sites. Through on-the-spot reportage and photographs she records mountain trails, household life, marriage customs, blood feuds, guardian spirits, songs, and local legends that link ancient origins to contemporary loyalties. Encounters include hospitable villagers, chiefs, bandits, village councils, and church services, while political tensions and volunteer fighters surface in town life. The narrative blends travel anecdote, ethnographic observation, and historical tale to convey daily routines, ritual law, landscape, and the uneasy interaction of long-standing tradition with emergent national order.

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Title: Peaks of Shala

Author: Rose Wilder Lane

Release date: March 5, 2022 [eBook #67568]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United States: Harper & Brothers, 1923

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Peaks of Shala

Rose Wilder Lane