There Are Other Rivers
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Author Note
07 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Thank you for making it this far!I really hope that you enjoyed the story.
The Last Day: to the Sea
07 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Last Day: to the Sea “Each day looks as beautiful as the roads that lead to the sea.” “Beep... beepbeepbeepbeep... BEEPBEEPBEEPBEEP.” I...
The Last Day: to the Source
06 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Last Day: to the Source “I know that it might be better for you to come out from under your might-have-beens, into the winds of the world.” ...
Nightfall
05 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nightfall “When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch... ...
Freedom
04 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Freedom “But the word timshel – “thou mayest” – that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is...
Sunset
03 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sunset “Better a thousand times that he should be a tramp, and mend pots and pans by the wayside, and sleep under trees, and see the dawn and the s...
Struggle
02 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Struggle “You can boast about anything if it’s all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.” It’s hard to get ...
Challenge
01 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Challenge “You’re too young a man to be panning memories, Adam. You should be getting yourself some new ones, so that the mining will be richer w...
Afternoon
30 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Afternoon “I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, work...
Quest
29 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Quest “If one were properly to perform a difficult and subtle act, he should first inspect the end to be achieved and then, once he had accepted th...
Pilgrimage
28 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Pilgrimage “We are the Pilgrims, master; we shall go Always a little further: it may be Beyond the last blue mountain barred with snow, Across tha...
Religion
27 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Religion “I have no bent towards gods. But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul.” Religion is an integral part of In...
Noon
26 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Noon “And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dr...
People
25 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
People “I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.” The people I meet are a highlight of the journey. I meet good peo...
Joy
24 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Joy “Every man has a retirement picture in which he does those things he never had time to do – makes the journeys, reads the neglected books he ...
Landscape
23 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Landscape “And then – the glory – so that a cricket song sweetens his ears, the smell of the earth rises chanting to his nose, and dappling lig...
Learning
22 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Learning “And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.” My life really got...
Food
21 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Food “What does a man need, really need? A few pounds of food each day, heat and shelter, six feet to lie down in and some form of working activity...
Curiosity
20 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Curiosity “I’ve never been content to pass a stone without looking under it. And it is a black disappointment to me that I can never see the far ...
Morning
19 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Morning “And again there are mornings when ecstasy bubbles in the blood, and the stomach and chest are tight and electric with joy.” The water i...
Snapshot
18 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Snapshot “The Earth teaches us more about ourselves than all the books in the world.” All the clichés about India are true. Clichés always a...
Alone
17 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Alone “All great and precious things are lonely.” Odd choice, India, if I wanted to be alone. But being alone is an important part of my journey...
Simplicity
16 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Simplicity “Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without.” A couple of years ago I was out on ...
Escape
15 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Escape “For it is said that humans are never satisfied, that you give them one thing and they want something more. And this is said in disparagemen...
Sunrise
14 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sunrise “And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to. And there were no limits to anything. And the people of the world were good and...
Routine
13 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Routine “It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.” People looking at me walking through India might envisage m...
River
12 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
River “Don’t you dare take the lazy way... Whatever you do, it will be you who do.” I push through a bamboo grove to the river and sit beneath...
Go
11 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Go “The virus of restlessness begins to take possession of a wayward man, and the road away from here seems broad and straight and sweet.” An ur...
Flabbiness
10 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Flabbiness “You know how advice is: you only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyways.” There are three stages of flabbiness in l...
Dawn
09 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dawn “It was a morning like other mornings and yet perfect among mornings.” I walk quietly past the night watchman, bundled in blankets and snor...
The Walk
08 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Walk “You can boast about anything if it’s all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.” This book is not a ...
Introduction
07 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Introduction “Beginning has the pleasure of a great stretching yawn; it flashes in the brain and the whole world glows outside your eyes.” “Be...
Author's Note
06 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“For I have discovered that there are other rivers. And this my boys will not know for a long time nor can they be told. A great many never come to ...
There Are Other Rivers
21 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Alastair Humphreys walked across India, from the Coromandel Coast to the Malabar Coast, following the course of a holy river. Walking alone and spendi...