Touching Tibet

Niema was born and brought up in Montreal. At the age of 14 she embarked on a trip to New York; from then on she knew that travel was a driving passion, fundamental to her existence. Leaving home an adolescent, she returned an adult, with a husband, baby and a career. She has travelled extensively throughout the world, punctuated by periods spent in her native Canada. In the early sixties she had a daughter, Ronit, whom she raised while living and working with some of the most influential musicians and poets of our time. Niema Ash has been described as, "the ideal author of a travel book: passionate, curious, self-critical, and with a rare ability to describe not just the outward appearances of a foreign land but also to penetrate and evoke in splendidly vivid prose, its very essence".