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By Kim Stanley Robinson

ISBN-10: 0812500598

ISBN-13: 9780812500592

George Fergusson works as a trek advisor major teams of visitors into the again nation and infrequently aiding on severe climbs. George Freds Fredericks is anothera tall, easy-going North American who visited Nepal twelve months and not went domestic. The adventures commence whilst George and Freds celebration for a systematic excursion looking for the Yeti.

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Just a glance and I spotted him, nipping into a newsstand: Phil Adrakian. Now I couldn’t go home, not straight home. So I went to the Kathmandu Guest House, next door, and told one of the snooty clerks there that Jimmy Carter would be visiting in ten minutes and his secretary would be arriving very shortly. I walked through into the pretty garden that gives the Guest House so many of its pretensions, and hopped over a low spot in the back wall. Down an empty garbage alley, around the corner, over another wall, and past the Lodge Pleasant or Pheasant into the Star’s courtyard.

But he was cool; there was a procedure here, he had me know; he handled all the wafers carefully first, sniffed them, ate them very slowly; took the jerky from between his toes, tried half of it; looked around the room, or at me, chewing very slowly. So calm, so peaceful he was! I decided the candy would be okay, and offered him the bag of jelly beans. He tried one and his eyebrows lifted; he picked one of the same color (green) from the bag, and gave it to me. Pretty soon we had all the food I owned scattered out there on the bed between us, and we tried first one thing and then another, in silence, as slowly and solemnly as if it were all some sacred ritual.

More of the famous smile. ” And we answered “Arkansas,” “California,” “M-Massa-chusetts,” “Oregon,” and at each one he smiled and nodded with recognition and pleasure, and Rosalynn smiled and said “Hello, hello,” with that faint look I had seen before during the Presidential years, that seemed to say she would have been just as happy somewhere else, and we all shuffled around so that we could all shake hands with Jimmy—until it was Buddha’s turn. “This is our guide, B-Badim Badur,” I said. ” “I understand,” Jimmy said.

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