This work treats us to India in all its finery. Hypnotic and magical, it is a valuable, helpful, honest and enjoyable book. The Rope in the Water is the story of Sylvia Fraser’s three-month pilgrimage to India in search of “something larger than myself, something deeper, something more.†Traveling 12,000 kilometers across deserts and through jungles, she visits sacred sites such as: The twilight city of Varanasi on the Ganges, dense with the smoke of ...
