Deep river.

From: Commonweal | Date: February 8, 2002| Author: | Copyright information 
Sacred Waters 
A Pilgrimage up the Ganges River to the Source of Hindu Culture 
Stephen Alter 
Harcourt, $25, 368 pp.

Sacred Waters is a lovely, tranquil account of a spiritual journey undertaken by a third-generation missionary kid, born and raised in the Garwhal foothills of the Himalayas, where his parents and grandparents ran Woodstock, the American missionary boarding school. An atheist and a seeker now, Stephen Alter embarks on foot, over ten months, on the traditional Hindu pilgrimage, the Char Dham Yatra, to the four main sources of the Ganges, Yamnotri, Gangotri, ...

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