NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Engaging, compassionate." -- Globe and Mail "Rustad proves himself here to be a masterful storyteller . . . you're not going to want to put this book down." -- Toronto Star "A nuanced and gripping account." -- Financial Times For fans of Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild , a riveting work of narrative nonfiction centering on the unsolved disappearance of an American backpacker in India. For centuries, India has enthralled Westerners looking for an exotic getaway, a brief immersion in yoga and ...
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Engaging, compassionate." -- Globe and Mail "Rustad proves himself here to be a masterful storyteller . . . you're not going to want to put this book down." -- Toronto Star "A nuanced and gripping account." -- Financial Times For fans of Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild , a riveting work of narrative nonfiction centering on the unsolved disappearance of an American backpacker in India. For centuries, India has enthralled Westerners looking for an exotic getaway, a brief immersion in yoga and meditation, or, in rare cases, a true pilgrimage to find spiritual revelation. Justin Alexander Shetler, an inveterate traveler trained in wilderness survival, was one such seeker. In his early thirties, Justin quit his job at a tech startup and set out on a global journey--across the United States by motorcycle, then down to South America, and on to the Philippines, Thailand, and Nepal--in search of authentic experiences and meaningful encounters while documenting his travels on Instagram. His enigmatic character and magnetic personality gained him a devoted following who lived vicariously through his adventures. But the ever-restless explorer was driven to seek out ever-greater extremes, and greater risks, in what had become a personal quest--his own hero's journey. In 2016, he made his way to the Parvati Valley, a remote and rugged corner of the Indian Himalayas steeped in mystical tradition and shrouded in darkness and danger. There he spent weeks studying under the guidance of a sadhu, an Indian holy man, living and meditating in a cave. At the end of August, accompanied by the sadhu, he set off on a spiritual journey to a holy lake--one from which he would never return. Lost in the Valley of Death is about one man's search to find himself, in a country where, for many Westerners, the path to spiritual enlightenment can prove fraught, even treacherous. But it is also a story about all of us and the ways, sometimes extreme, we seek fulfillment in life.
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