Called by the Hills - A Wild Flowering in the Himalaya

A book about building a home and a wild garden on the edge of a Himalayan forest, illuminated by the author''s own watercolors. When acclaimed novelist Anuradha Roy and her husband stumble upon a derelict cottage in the hill station of Ranikhet, they decide it is where they will now live. Fresh from the neon-lit publishing offices of Delhi, Roy is initially bemused by the gentle pace of life in the mountains but then won over: spellbound by the landscape, taken to the heart of the rural community, and adopted by four mountain dogs and counting. As Roy tries to rebuild the cottage and create a garden, she encounters nature at its most fierce, beautiful, and vulnerable, and over twenty-five years bears witness to the destructive impact of global warming on the alpine ecosystem. What emerges is a tender and intimate portrait of her surroundings in which rugged nature, loveable dogs, and recalcitrant humans come together to captivating effect. Written with unsentimental clarity, humor, and poignancy, this is a story of profound transformations.

Product details

• Authors: Anuradha Roy
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 06.05.2026
• EAN: 9780063491830
• ISBN: 978-0-06-349183-0
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Mindfulness, Biography: general, Asia, Memoirs, Indigenous Peoples, History of Art, Environmental Management, Individual artists, art monographs, Mind, body, spirit: meditation and visualization, Nature and the natural world: general interest, South Asia (Indian sub-continent), Biography: science, technology and medicine, Nature therapy, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Women, ART: Women Artists, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Environmentalists & Naturalists, PSYCHOLOGY: Mental Health, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT: Mindfulness & Meditation, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT: Nature Therapy, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Asian & Asian American, NATURE: Indigenous Stewardship, ART: Asian / Indian & South Asian *