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THE SHOOTING STAR Paperback – 1 January 2018

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Shivya Nath quit her corporate job at age twenty-three to travel the world. She gave up her home and the need for a permanent address, sold most of her possessions and embarked on a nomadic journey that has taken her everywhere from remote Himalayan villages to the Amazon rainforests of Ecuador. Along the way, she lived with an indigenous Mayan community in Guatemala, hiked alone in the Ecuadorian Andes, got mugged in Costa Rica, swam across the border from Costa Rica to Panama, slept under a meteor shower in the cracked salt desert of Gujarat and learnt to conquer her deepest fears.

With its vivid descriptions, cinematic landscapes, moving encounters and uplifting adventures, The Shooting Star is a travel memoir that maps not just the world but the human spirit.

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    1 January 2018
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    19.8 x 12.9 x 1.41 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    0143443194
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    978-0143443193
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Shivya Nath grew up in Dehradun, at the base of the Himalayas in India. At the age of twenty-three, she quit her corporate job at the Singapore Tourism Board to travel the world. A couple of years later, she gave up her home, sold most of her belongings and started living nomadically. She has travelled to over fifty countries, and is the author of one of India's leading travel blogs, The Shooting Star. She appeared on the cover of the National Geographic Traveller India magazine in 2017, and her intrepid journey has been featured on BBC Travel, NDTV, TEDx and several national and international publications. This is her first book.


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Her blog: the-shooting-star.com
Instagram: @shivya
Twitter: @shivya
Facebook: The Shooting Star

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ PENGUIN INDIA (1 January 2018)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 216 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0143443194
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0143443193
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 170 g
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 19.8 x 12.9 x 1.41 cm
  • Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ India
  • Generic Name ‏ : ‎ Book
  • Customer Reviews:
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Shivya Nath (born 1988) grew up in Dehradun, India. At age 23, she quit her corporate job and a couple of years later, gave up her home, sold most of her belongings and started living nomadically. She is the author of one of India’s leading travel blogs, The Shooting Star (the-shooting-star.com). She appeared on the cover of National Geographic Traveller India magazine in 2017, and has been featured on BBC Travel, NDTV and TEDx. Connect with her on Instagram / Twitter: @shivya

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Miss Maple
5.0 out of 5 stars World through a traveller's eye
Reviewed in India on 4 October 2018
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This is such an amazing book! Having followed the author's journey and work for many years now, I was super thrilled about her first book. I had always imagined there'll be a book, either Shivya or someone would write about the perpetual journey she is set out on. It's beautifully written with honest, raw emotions and that's what makes it absolutely beautiful. I haven't finished the book yet as I'm savouring each and every chapter slowly, but I'm so in love with the book. I feel, everyone, traveller or not, should read this as it really is about following your dreams, braving the challenges and finding the peace at the end of the day. I wish you the very best Shivya, thank you for the inspiration :)
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Frihed
5.0 out of 5 stars It is soul touching and so pure and genuine!!
Reviewed in India on 17 September 2018
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I loved the book so far. I am so touched and thrilled with each episode from the book. I wish to have the same courage as Shivya has. I want to say so much but I am too emotional and filled with joy that I can't find words to express. I would like to hug you Shivya to tell you how much your story means to me and that you are a star and my kindred spirit. I also want to say very well written, there is never a dull moment and it is very captivating. Loads of love and happy travel!!
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P C Vasudevan
4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting read
Reviewed in India on 13 June 2022
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The book was quite interesting to read. However, the author could have been more selective in choosing her destinations, and made it more descriptive.
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Pratyusha Sen
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1. You will fall in love with her writing
Shivya Nath weaves words in such a charismatic way that you will fall in love with her writing style immediately. Her simple yet fantastic penmanship left me in awe on the very first day I discovered her blog. Even though her travel tales have been arranged in a non-chronological manner, the book gave me the same feels and thrills a great adventure fiction would do.
2. You can relate to her on more than one levels
Her book tells us about the journey she took to become the person she truly is; the person we love and admire today so much. Her journey began on the same wavering note as ours did. While reading about her initial years at a corporate job and the “tragedy of a mundane, average, unfulfilling life” gnawing her insides just like mine do right now, I could feel exactly how she felt all those years ago. I sat still for a whole minute to wrap my head around her idea of tragedy. And when she conveyed through her stories that this nomadic life was a calling that she could not explain, I instantly knew what she meant by that. And I’m sure you would too.
3. You will finally find the courage to break free
Her book is not a travelogue but more like an account of her life changing personal events that we all can identify with at various levels. Breaking free from the shackles of a safe and secure life, she headed out for freedom because una vida, one life.
“Solitude is like a mysterious drug; at first, you fear it and reject it. But when you finally try it, you begin to crave the way it makes you feel.” – Shivya Nath
And thus, Shivya Nath started seeking solitude with her unusual travels. Her adventures and misadventures through the unexplored parts of the world made us believe in the goodness which we know exist but is difficult to find. Although in search of solitude, Shivya often ended up making various connections and friendships with people vastly different from her.
4. You will understand how staying rooted is actually a psychological aspect
Renouncing the roof over her head, Shivya now found home in the unexplored corners of the world. She let go of “the things that owned her or the things she owned” and roamed the wide world with just her rucksack and backpack. Pick up the book to have a new notion of home or head over to her blog right now.
5. You will feel like you have changed into a better person
Before reading the chapter ‘Chicken Bus’, I was determined that no matter how much I admired this woman, I could never give up meat or dairy products. But after reading it, after feeling what she felt, after understanding why she decided to go vegan, I can now feel a seed of change being planted in my mind. That is how powerful her writing is.
“That is how it is with the road; it changes you when you least expect it.” – Shivya Nath
6. You will find inspiration and courage too
With her wild tales and her ensnaring writing, her book kept me going and inspired me to chase my dreams that were bottled up inside me. Finding courage in between the pages of her book, I have now resolved to be a little braver than yesterday and chase my dreams (now turned into goals).
“After all, we were not put on earth to be prisoners of an unpredictable future. We were put on earth to live our present with a fierce courage, that when the future comes we can look it in the eye without a hint of fear and charm it with the adventures of our past.” – Shivya Nath
7. You will find the book to be your perfect companion for all your upcoming travels
There’s so much to learn from her book that reading it once is definitely not going to be enough. She wrote about her travelling solo, detaching herself from consumerist behavior, setting up transitory homes wherever she went, relationships, fears, dreams and much more that it felt like I am meeting a best friend after ages and she just cannot stop telling me all about her life. It felt like a long magical night under a blanket of thousand shimmering stars.
“And as I lay there, a shooting star darted through the sky, reminding me that any magical feeling in our lives is much like the magic in the sky – fleeting.” – Shivya Nath
And yet, I was sure that this magical feeling was going to linger longer that it is meant to.
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Sheetal
3.0 out of 5 stars Good read - but underwhelming - different from my expectations.
Reviewed in India on 16 July 2021
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log/website and Instagram for a few years now.
I love her writing and her way of living, perspectives, narration. Hence, I also picked up the book (Kindle version).
The writing is great and experiences are beautiful, something I loved reading and almost could picture it like a movie being played in front of me. Shivya - her way of traveling, living, eating is very different from what we know or have learnt and hence it does give a fresh perspective and something new at the turn of most pages. Also, there are some places I might not be traveling to soon or ever, so reading about it almost feels like being there. Specially, nunnery in Ladakh, or local families and stay in Guatemala.

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The book did not live upto my expectations. Maybe I had different expectations.... like knowing more about Shivya's journey - how did she convince her parents, how do parents and herself deal with this new lifestyle, how did she meet her partner etc. Although, I understand this is all personal, however, this is part of the journey.
I was also not so fond of the non-chronological order of the book. I found it confusing and disjoint. Is difficult to follow which place and time she is talking about - or what season.
I was expecting to read more details regarding travel, documentation like visas and issues, anecdotes, experiences rather than what she felt at a place - which is anyway apparent from her blogs and Instagram.
The experiences, although not all are recorded in the blog/website, felt more or less similar to her bog/Instagram- on why Shivya takes off the beaten path, living with locals and epiphanies along the way.

I enjoy her travels - I really do - so I would recommend to read this while on a long train journey or as a read in the pandemic while travels are restricted, but I would highly recommend to follow her blog or Instagram for a more authentic account of her experience.
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