Yak Butter Blues in Spanish

[sillydoll]

Brandon Wilson wonderful book is now available in Spanish.
Spanish readers can now join them on their unforgettable journey. Yak Butter Blues: Una Caminata de Fe Por El Tibet (originally published as Yak Butter Blues: A Tibetan Trek of Faith, an IPPY Award winner) is an edge-of-your-seat tale of survival. Alone, with only their stalwart Tibetan horse Sadhu, the Wilsons faced Tibet’s ruthless environment head-on: its relentless winds, extreme temperatures, the thinnest of air, blizzards and sandstorms…all made more challenging by exhaustion, hunger, illness, inflexible bureaucrats and trigger-happy Chinese soldiers.
The peripatetic writer has now thru-hiked ten of the world’s great long-distance trails, including the Via Alpina, the Camino de Santiago and Via de la Plata across Spain, as well as St. Olav’s Way across Norway. He was the first American to hike the 1150-mile Via Francigena from England to Rome, and in 2006, he and a friend re-blazed the 2600-mile route of the First Crusades from France to Jerusalem on a walk for peace, naming it the Templar Trail.

 

[Telluridewalker]

Thanks for the reference- I think Mr. Wilson is the closest thing I've come across to being a professional pilgrim. Which of his books would you recommend as a starting place?

 

[Caminando]

This Brandon guy seems a bit over the top......................... and Sadhu the horse....?hmmm :shock:

 

[sillydoll]

In Brandon's words:

Each of his books are very different. Not only the settings, but his own personal evolution and insight has changed over the years and that's reflected in his travel experience and writing. Although not written as a series, per se, some see them as such. If so, maybe they reflect one pilgrim's evolution.
Dead Men Don't Leave Tips is a stark, unsanitized, eye-opening account of the perils of crossing Africa. The lions were not nearly as dangerous as their travel companions.
Yak Butter Blues starts out as an adventure tale. After their own survival becomes interwoven with their Tibetan hosts, they become pilgrims on a harrowing mission to carry prayer flags to the King of Nepal and to prove this traditional trail should be re-opened to Buddhists and others of faith.
Along the Templar Trail is probably his more "philosophical" work, as this trek was designed as a walk for peace to establish a new pilgrim's route to Jerusalem along what was once the route of the First Crusades.
While his newest book, Over the Top & Back Again, is an adventure story intertwined with Alpine nature and culture, legends, weird characters and a little more humor. The world needs a good chuckle these days.

Visit his website http://www.pilgrimstales.com and decide for yourself.