Silent Journeys

What of the many travels undertaken through history by men and women in war and peace that have been unrecorded invisible and forgotten?In Benyamins Silent Journeys we trace the voyage of Mariamma a young nurse from Kerala who travelled from her hometown in Manthalir all the way across the world. Nothing was known of her journey until many decades later when a curious great grandson began his investigations only to stumble across a tale of great adventure hardship resilience and love.The novel reflects upon terrific stories of unaccompanied and courageous journeys that many valiant women primarily nurses have made through history reaching the coldest places in the Arctic Canada remote tribal locations in the desert the interiors of the dark continent and almost everywhere in Europe