Sacred Waters: A Pilgrimage Up the Ganges River to the Source of Hindu Culture - Hardcover

Alter, Stephen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151005850 ISBN 13: 9780151005857

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2001

Synopsis

The author of All the Way to Heaven chronicles his journey up the Ganges River in search of the headwaters of this most sacred of Indian waterways, exploring ancient myths, remote towns, long-lost temples, and the way of the pilgrim. 15,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Stephen Alter is writer-in-residence in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies at MIT, and was the director of the writing program at Cairo's American University. He is the author of four novels and a memoir, All the Way to Heaven, as well as the recently published Amritsar to Lahore.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0151005850
• ISBN 13: 9780151005857
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368