{"product_id":"b0fpg1v87s","title":"Called by the Hills: A Home in the Himalaya","description":"\u003cp\u003eA book about building a home and a wild garden on the edge of a Himalayan forest, illuminated by the author’s own watercolors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs 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, lovable dogs, and recalcitrant humans come together to captivating effect. Written with unsentimental clarity, humor, and poignancy, this is a story of profound transformations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":52834505097432,"sku":"YSL56152","price":8.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0835\/3356\/2072\/files\/81C_OXP844L._SY1500.jpg?v=1793259997","url":"https:\/\/www.bookmebay.com\/products\/b0fpg1v87s","provider":"BookMebay","version":"1.0","type":"link"}