The Five Fakirs Of Faizabad (2010) - Plot & Excerpts
Of course, understanding what Rakshasas was saying was easy when John was able to enter the wolf’s body as a spirit, but the boy djinn could hardly do that while he was flying the carpet. This made navigation difficult as only Rakshasas knew how to get to Shamba-la in Tibet. So John chalked a drawing of a compass on the carpet and, from time to time, he would show Rakshasas the army compass he held in his hand or tell him the bearing, whereupon the wolf would bark an affirmative, whine a negative, or place his paw on the chalk circle according to the direction his nose told him that they should fly in. And in this way they flew from Colorado to Lhasa in Tibet, west to east, crossing the Pacific Ocean and then mainland China — a distance of seven thousand five hundred miles. John had never been to Tibet before and, but for the wolf’s lack of speech, Rakshasas would certainly have told his young friend something of the beautiful country in which they were soon to arrive. He would have told him that Tibet is the highest region on Earth, with an average elevation of sixteen thousand feet, and that it had been an independent country until the People’s Republic of China had invaded it in 1950.
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