About the Book: Everything the Light Touches
In Everything the Light Touches we meet many travellers: Shai, a young Indian
woman, lost and straying, who journeys to Indias northeast and rediscovers,
through her encounters with indigenous communities, ways of being that realign
and renew her. Evelyn, an Edwardian science student at Cambridge, inspired by
Goethes botanical writings, who embarks on a journey seeking out the sacred
forests of the Lower Himalayas. Linnaeus, botanist, taxonomist, who famously
declared God creates; Linnaeus organizes, and his 1732 expedition to Lapland.
Goethe, who travels through Italy in the 1780s, formulating his ideas for The
Metamorphosis of Plants, a littleknown revelatory