title: Kashmir: Happy Valley, Valley of Death
author: William W. Baker
description: Mr. Baker has presented the saddening and often graphic horrors  the reality of the Kashmiri daily life. -- <i>J. Patel, Falls River Gazette, November 4th, 1998</i><br /><br />The people of Kashmir deserve an audience; this book has given them that, now we must begin to listen! -- <i>Cynthia Ashsundry, The Bluebonnet Press</i>
zlib_text: **Isabella L. Bird**
  
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  Published by Good Press, 2021  
  
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  EAN 4057664593443
  
  
  # Table of Contents
  
    
  
  [CHAPTER I THE START](text00002.html#x2e000002)
  
  [CHAPTER II SHERGOL AND LEH](text00003.html#x2e000003)
  
  [CHAPTER III NUBRA](text00004.html#x2e000004)
  
  [CHAPTER IV MANNERS AND CUSTOMS](text00005.html#x2e000005)
  
  [CHAPTER V CLIMATE AND NATURAL FEATURES](text00006.html#x2e000006)
  
  
  ##  CHAPTER I  
    
  THE START
  
  [Table of Contents](text00001.html#toc101)  
  
  The Vale of Kashmir is too well known to require description. It is the 'happy
  hunting-ground' of the Anglo-Indian sportsman and tourist, the resort of
  artists and invalids, the home of _pashm_ shawls and exquisitely embroidered
  fabrics, and the land of Lalla Rookh. Its inhabitants, chiefly Moslems,
  infamously governed by Hindus, are a feeble race, attracting little interest,
  valuable to travellers as 'coolies' or porters, and