Download or read book The Golden Peak written by Kathleen Jamie and published by Virago Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travelling on foot, in jeeps, on rafts in the far-flung Himalayan regions of Northern Pakistan, Kathleen Jamie found a country in the tumult of change. She met Sufi mystics and Irish missionaries; young men and women caught between East and West, and women in purdah with whom she lived and became friends. This book won the Scottish Arts Council Book Award 1992.