The Ganges
Along Sacred Waters
Aldo Pavan
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| ‘Thoughtfully written … the images will stay with you long after you’ve put the book down’ | | – The Sunday Times |
| ‘A Gangetic abundance of memorable images: a mosaic of river, people and rituals … vividly expresses the powerful motifs and paradoxes of India’ | | – The Daily Telegraph |
| ‘A delightful and informative book’ | | – Royal Photographic Society |
India’s holiest river, the Ganges, winds some 1,550 miles from its headwaters in the Himalayan glaciers past the villages and cities of the Gangetic Plain to the Delta’s thousand fingers in the Bay of Bengal between India and Bangladesh.
Here, Aldo Pavan and his camera trace the route of this sacred river, capturing its beauty and its many different phases and moods. Along the way, we meet pilgrims, sadhus, fishermen, farmers, weavers, merchants, hairdressers, snake charmers and others whose lives are spent along the river’s banks.
Also of interest:
The Nile: From the Mountains to the Mediterranean
The Ganges by Raghubir Singh
Indian Wisdom 365 Days
Buddhist Himalayas: People, Faith and Nature
Holy Places, Sacred Sites
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|  |  | | | | ISBN 0500512590 | | ISBN-13 978-0500512593 | | | | 26.5 x 25.0 cm | | Hardback | | 336pp | | 267 illustrations, 253 in colour | | First published 2005 | | | | £29.95 | | | |  | | | | 
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