For A Pagan Song

by JonnyBealby (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1998

  $3.25

  By the age of 21, Jonny Bealby had never read a book, and was rather proud of this fact - or so he told his new girlfriend, Melanie, who seemed to devour books by the dozen. Life was too full of excitement for Jonny to find time to read - and being dyslexic (he failed English O'level five times) he found reading difficult. But a few weeks after meeting Melanie, she gave him a present: Rudyard Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King . And the man who wouldn't read discovered great literature. This book is the story of how Jonny discovered books and so successfully overcame his disabilities that he is now a twice-published author. Interspersed in his personal odyssey is the travel story, as he follows the journey of the man who would be king, through India, Pakistan and into the dangerous lands of Afghanistan.
• Prizes: ','1','ChildrenBookAge: ','Book Overview: \'A rollicking tale- No one has written a better travel book about the region since Eric Newby came down from the Hindu Kush.\' - Daily Telegraph','One of Britain\'s sexiest authors * Marie Claire *
  A superb and truthful book. I cannot remember the last travel book that had me laughing aloud and in tears by the end- extremely worthwhile and memorable. * Traveller *
  Something in Bealby\'s voice, a mixture of innocence, determination and pain, makes the journey worthwhile. I was glad to be there when [he] reaches his pagan land. * Sunday Times *
  A rollicking tale. No one has written a better travel book about the region since Eric Newby came down from the Hindu Kush. * Daily Telegraph *','Jonny Bealby was born in 1963. Educated in England, Scotland and Canada, he developed a passion for travel and on leaving college journeyed extensively in Australasia and the Far East. Returning to the UK he became a sound engineer before forming his own rock band, Tin Gods. The group recorded four singles and one album before splitting up. He has visited more than sixty countries and has had articles featured in a variety of publications including the Daily Telegraph, Observer, Traveller, and Manchester United Magazine. He is the author of Running with the Moon, For a Pagan Song and Silk Dreams, Troubled Road.');">

  Used

  Paperback
  1999

  $3.25

  For a Pagan Song tells the story of how Jonny Bealby follows in the footsteps of his two heroes from literature, Kipling and Dravot, travelling across remote parts of India and Pakistan and into war-torn Afghanistan. Picturing himself seated by a roaring fire, listening to the song of a pagan chief, Jonny sets out to experience the ancient ways of the tribes of Kafiristan -- and discovers himself along the way.