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Goat: A Story of Kashmir and Notting Hill

Goat: A Story of Kashmir and Notting Hill


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This is a story about goat hair, gathered from herds that graze among the high-altitude monasteries of Little Tibet, woven in villages near the Kashmiri border with Pakistan, and sold to the ladies-who-lunch of London's Notting Hill. It is also the story of a beautiful valley with some ugly secrets. A journalist based in India, Justine Hardy started trading pashmina shawls as a way of raising money to support an education programme in some of Delhi's slum areas. In setting up the company she spent time living among the market dyers in the polluted inner city of Delhi, in villages in the fighting zones of Kashmir, on the lakes beyond Srinagar, and in and out of design houses and the scented drawing-rooms of wealthy London. In Delhi the money from the shawls was turned into primary education for beggar children; in Kashmir, over the flight of the pashmina looms, stories began to be told of the hundreds of children who disappear each year, perhaps into terrorist camps where they are trained to become killers. Goat is an unusual story of shawls and missing children, of cappuccino bars in London and hostages in Kashmir.

Table of Contents:
1. Abdullah the Storyteller; 2. Mrs Clinton's Carpetman; 3. The Colours of Pashm; 4. Hot Pink of Notting Hill; 5. Shadows of the Valley; 6. A Wangnoo in London; 7. Money in the Sock Drawer; 8. Tea with Mr Butt; 9. The Battle of Tiger Hill; 10. Serpents in the Garden; 11. The Warped Weft; 12. Tea without Mr Butt

About the Author :
Justine Hardy's first book, The Ochre Border, was about the reopening of the Tibetan frontier-lands. Her second, Scoop-Wallah, the story of life on an Indian newspaper in Delhi, was short-listed for the Thomas Cook/Daily Telegraph Travel Book Award in 2000. She lives in London and Delhi.

Review :
"'Hardy writes like a dream... Very funny, inspirational and containing just about all you ever wanted to know about pashmina' William Allendale 'The strength of her storyline is complemented by her evocative prose, sensitively written with humour and pathos' Victoria Schofield"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780719561559
  • Publisher: John Murray Press
  • Publisher Imprint: John Murray Publishers Ltd
  • Edition: New edition
  • Spine Width: 197 mm
  • Weight: 254 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0719561558
  • Publisher Date: 08 Mar 2001
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 19 mm
  • Sub Title: A Story of Kashmir and Notting Hill
  • Width: 129 mm


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