NO BODA BODA: THE UNUSUAL JOURNEYS OF INDER JIT SINGH by INDER JIT SINGH (4 Reviews)    Price verified 10 hours ago

A Travel Biography spanning three decades and four continentsAlthough born into a sikh family in India, Inder Jit Singh by virtue of growing up as an army brat, schooled and travelled in almost every other region of India except the Punjab, the sikh homeland. Soldiers of the Indian army, including the Assam Rifles were often his companions. The schooling in north east india saw him in the company of classmates who hailed from tribal communities there and all of this coupled with the military history of such places as Kohima and Imphal, ingrained in him a love for travel, adventure, other peoples, grography and discovery and military history. This later led to Singh's professional interest in these subjects, enough to make a career out of them. Training the military, or corporate executives in the himalayan outdoors, school and collegiate audiences and discerning travellers from America, Australia and the United Kingdom as well were all part of his profession as one of the handful of pioneers in the field of adventure tourism in India from the early 80's. He became a pioneer of eco tourism and was recognised internationally for this in the mid 90's. Anyone interested in reading with humour and insight through a traveller's eye, about the vast breadth and cross cultural mosaic of India which few Indians know of, as well as adventure ,in the African and South American continent especially on horseback, would enjoy this book. Also revealed are Singh's insights along with contributing author Jayanta Deva Ranade, on thye emerging Great Game viz a viz China, for the himalayan regions where he travelled, shows the Chinese hand of the CCP. The adventure sports covered in the book include, himalayan high altutude treks, himalayan white water rafting, jungle safaris, horseback journeys, anthropological discovery, and polo plus holidays, a unique sporting holiday concept he promoted since the mid 90's in multiple continents. In 1995 he took his experience and concepts to ...

Genre: Sports & Outdoors