Rootless and Restless: A Woman's Search for Meaningful Adventure in Distant Places | From the Bestselling Author of The Shooting Star
What draws us away from security and into the unknown? Shivya Nath's second offering takes readers on an intimate expedition across continents, where she abandons the predictable in pursuit of genuine human stories. Her travels span from a windswept Arctic isle to uncontacted villages scattered through Myanmar's interior, and onward to the austere landscapes of Central Asia. Rather than collecting passport stamps, she seeks out traditions on the brink of extinction and encounters that reshape perspective. The book bristles with arresting moments: a tense confrontation with Iran's morality enforcers, the discovery of Japanese customs layered with centuries of meaning, and an extraordinary meeting with the sole survivor of a vanishing species. In our age of curated feeds, fractured societies and ecological crisis, this travelogue pushes back against hollow tourism. Nath demonstrates how genuine wandering becomes a portal to unexpected wisdom, to people whose lives defy easy categorisation, and ultimately, to a reckoning with oneself. It's both intimate chronicle and meditation on what authentic discovery might mean.
- Author: Shivya Nath
- Publisher: India Penguin
- Genre: Travel Writing & Guides
- ISBN: 978-0143481416
- Pages: 352 pages