Beyond the Sky and the Earth
A Journey Into Bhutan
In the tradition of Iron and Silk and Touch the Dragon, Jamie Zeppa’s memoir of her years in Bhutan is the story of a young woman’s self-discovery in a foreign land. It is also the exciting début of a new voice in travel writing.
When she left for the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan in 1988, Zeppa was committing herself to two years of teaching and a daunting new experience. A week on a Caribbean beach had been her only previous trip outside Canada; Bhutan was on the other side of the world, one of the most isolated countries in the world known as the last Shangri-La, where little had changed in centuries and visits by foreigners were restricted. …
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January 28, 2011
"I'm so grateful that it went this way. There were several times that I could have turned around… I was always given these opportunities to turn back and I'm so glad I didn't."
Born in the Northern Ontario town of Sault-Ste-Marie, Jamie Zeppa was raised by her second-generation Polish grandparents after her parents separated. With her master's degree in English literature from York University and applications to graduate school at the ready, engaged to be married to a fellow academic, she was well on her way to her family's ideal of a good education, a good job and a family. But as she says in the book, "For all my years of study, I wasn't sure I had actually learned anything.…
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