Beyond The Himalayas: Journeying Through The Silk Route (H.B)

Filmmaker Goutam Ghose was part of the Central Asian expedition organised by Major H.P.S. Ahluwalia in 1994, the first of its kind. They undertook an arduous 14,000 km journey through Central Asia, China, and Tibet, tracing the ancient Silk Road. Ghose captured this once-in-a-lifetime adventure as a five-part series in his film Beyond the Himalayas (1996). This film book is a pictorial chronicle of Ghose’s incredible experience on the Silk Route. Much of the text is the narration of the original soundtrack from the series, adapted for the benefit of book readers. His lens captures breathtaking visuals of a less-travelled road. The tapestry of history, travel anecdotes, local legends and titanic characters lends a cinematic quality to the whole narrative. Cinematic jumps in this fascinating record of an enduring memory in the collective consciousness of human history intercut the fabled past and the present.