Joanna Lumley in the Kingdom of the Thunder Dragon

Joanna Lumley in the Kingdom of the Thunder Dragon by Joanna Lumley. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780563383291.

In 1931 Joanna Lumleys grandparents travelled to the remote Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan to invest King Jigme Wangchuk as a Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire. They journeyed for three-and-a-half months through dense jungles and across mountain passes and uncharted plains, taking with them a film camera. In this book, their granddaughter records her thoughts and impressions of Bhutan as she follows in their footsteps, trekking across the country from west to east, on foot and on ponies. The book includes photographs from her trip, archive pictures from her grandparents album, drawings by Lumley herself, and extracts from her own journal and her grandmothers diary. It is peppered with recipes, remedies, customs and, all through, a vein of personal family history and the authors own thoughts and observations.