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From time to time I feature birds on this travel blog. Birding is one of my major interests and I write about my sightings on Trevor’s Birding blog. Many people carry a bird identification guide book with them on their travels. I make sure I always have one with me to help work out what [...]

Against a Peacock Sky written by Monica Connell. Published by Penguin Books (Viking) in 1991. Monica Connell grew up in Northern Ireland and is an anthropologist who went to live in a rural village in Nepal. She lived and worked for two years with a Nepali family, sharing their celebrations, their hardships, their food and [...]