Spiti Valley to Emain Macha

“I’d noticed them in the contested borderland of India and China — Manirang Mountain near Mane Village in Spiti Valley. Spiti valley had been for thousands of years the historical boundary between the part of the earth where people spoke languages from what academics call the ‘Indo-European family’ and where they spoke Tibetan and Chinese. At the other end of the world, where we had also spoken Indo-European languages for thousands of years, there was Emain Macha, Ireland’s holiest site.”

Source: Journeying · Finding Manuland I

The full geographic sweep of M-N observations from a single diplomatic career — Spiti Valley on the India-Tibet-China border to Emain Macha in Ireland. The author’s biography spans Manuland.

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