William McKay Aitken
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William McKay Aitken (Bill Aitken ) is a Scottish born, naturalized Indian writer and traveller. He is the author of a number of books about India, its mountains and its spiritual core. Bill Aitken studied comparative theology at Leeds University and hitch-hiked to India in 1959. Ever since, he has undertaken various trips around and across India, on motorbikes and steam railway, through India's Deccan and around Nanda Devi. Bill Aitken's writings are characterized by a free-wheeling description of his travels, interspersed with intimate details of the land and its people, and their religious beliefs.
[edit] Books
- Seven Sacred Rivers, (Penguin Books India), ISBN 0-14-015473-6
- Divining the Deccan - A Motorbike to the Heart of India, (Oxford, 2002), ISBN 0-19-566350-0
- Footloose in the Himalaya, (Delhi, Permanent Black, 2003), ISBN 81-7824-052-1
- The Nanda Devi Affair, (Penguin Books India), ISBN 0-14-024045-4
- Branch Line to Eternity, (Penguin Books India), ISBN 0-14-100537-8
- Sri Sathya Sai Baba - A life, (Penguin Books India Pvt. Ltd.), ISBN 0-670-05807-6
- Riding The Ranges: Travels on My Motorcycle (ISBN 0-14-026804-9)
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