Among Flowers - A Walk in the HimalayaIn this travel memoir, the acclaimed novelist Jamaica Kincaid chronicles a three week trek through Nepal, the spectacular and exotic Himalayan land, where she and her companions are gathering seeds for planting at home. The natural world and, in particular, plants and gardening are central to Kincaids work; in addition to such novels as Annie John and Lucy, Kincaid is the author of My Garden (Book): a collection of essays about her love of cultivating