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In 1913 Ada Moore rode her pony along the ancient trade route from Srinagar to Leh, in Ladakh, to join the Moravian Mission there. This was the end of a journey which began in a laundry in Scarborough ten years before and the beginning of an extraordinary thirteen years living and working amongst the Tibetan people of this remote part of India. Ada's daughter, Monica, was born near the Tibetan border. Her book describes living high in the Himalayas in the first half of the 20th century. It gives a rare insight into the domestic and professional life of the missionaries who, from running a school to giving medical help in the most primitive conditions, were involved with the lives of the local people, and who worked to build a connection between different cultures. It tells what they learnt of local customs and beliefs and recounts their hair-raising adventures while travelling by yak and pony amongst some of the most beautiful and dramatic scenery in the world.

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In 1903 Ada Moore was working as a laundry clerk in Scarborough, Yorkshire, when she was inspired by reports of Younghusband's expedition to Tibet and decided she was going to go there herself. In time, after training at the Missionary Training College in Chelsea, she applied to the only two missions working in that part of the world and was offered a place as a single sister with the Moravians in Ladakh, in Little (or Western) Tibet. She married a fellow missionary, Henry Burroughs, and they spent thirteen years in Ladakh and Himachal Pradesh. Ill health eventually caused them to return to England, where Harry was ordained into the Church of England. Their four children were all born in India. Monica was born in Poo, on the Tibetan border, before the family moved back to Ladakh, to Khalatse. As was customary she was sent back to England to go to school but she clearly remembered her early upbringing. She, and her parents, had a great love for the Ladakhi people. Monica married a diplomat and spent her life moving between England and various postings abroad. She wrote this book, using the extensive notes left by her mother and drawing on her memories as a child. However, she was unable to publish it. At last, Ada's granddaughter Gillian, after her own experience of moving continuously with her army officer husband, has been able to prepare the book for publication.

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