Himalaya
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Himalaya
By Nicholas LuardHimalaya
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Himalaya: A Human History
By Ed DouglasSpanning millennia, from its earliest inhabitants to the present conflicts over Tibet and Everest, Himalaya is a soaring account of resilience and conquest, discovery and plunder, oppression and enlightenment at the 'roof of the world'.
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Himalaya
By Michael PalinOur visit has coincided with a performance of an early play by Michael Frayn , called Chinamen . With huge successes running currently on Broadway and in the West End , I imagine this is quite a coup for them , and have taken the ...
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Himalaya: Land of the Snow Lion
By Andrea BaldeckThis volume opens a window onto an ancient enduring culture, bound by shared ethnicity and religion and challenged by daunting geography.
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Himalaya: A Human History
By Ed DouglasIn this landmark work, nearly two decades in the making, Ed Douglas makes a thrilling case for the Himalaya’s importance in global history and offers a soaring account of life at the "roof of the world.
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Himalaya: Personal Stories of Grandeur, Challenge and Hope
By Richard C. Blum, Erica Stone, Broughton CoburnA hundred miles to the east , palaces of Lucknow were skewed and rent , and throughout the plains of the Ganges and Jamuna Rivers , shaken villagers watched as water and sand erupted from the ground and streamed over their fields .
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Himalaya: A Literary Homage to Adventure, Meditation, and Life on the Roof of the World
By Ruskin Bond, Namita GokhaleIt is richer in flora and fauna than any other in the Himalayas, and beyond this beautiful valley the hills extend in an unbroken line up to the Ganges, the waters of which you can see glinting in the sun over a hundred miles away.
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Himalaya: Exploring the Roof of the World
By John Keay294 8 Ibid. 9 Kingdon Ward, The Riddle of the Tsangpo Gorges, p. 160 10 Heinrich Harrer, Seven Years in Tibet, Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1953, Pan repr. 1965, p. 259 11 Maurice Isserman and Stewart Weaver, Fallen Giants: The History of ...
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Himalaya
By Michael PalinMichael Palin tackles the full length of the Himalaya in this terrific number one bestseller. Having risen to the challenge of seas, poles, dhows and deserts, the highest mountains in the world were a natural target for Michael Palin.
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Himalaya: Into the Land of the Gods
By Ed DouglasSpanning millennia, from its earliest inhabitants to the present conflicts over Tibet and Everest, the book is a soaring account of resilience and conquest, discovery and plunder, oppression and enlightenment at the 'roof of the world*'
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Himalaya: The Exploration and Conquest of the Greatest Mountains on Earth
By Philip ParkerHowever the book does not solely deal with the attempts to summit the majestic Everest.
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Himalaya: Exploring the Roof of the World
By John KeayHimalaya is the story of one of the last great wildernesses and, in particular, of the bizarre discoveries and improbable achievements of its pioneers.
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Himalaya: Exploring the Roof of the World
By John Keay... Fallen Giants: The History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes, Yale ... Fallen Giants, p. 153 2 10 16 Isserman and Weaver, Fallen Giants, p. 154 17 Höbusch, 'Mountain of Destiny', pp. 92–3 18 ...
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Himalaya: Exploring the Roof of the World
By John KeayHimalaya is the story of one of the last great wildernesses and, in particular, of the bizarre discoveries and improbable achievements of its pioneers.
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Himalaya: Vanishing Cultures
By Jan Reynolds"Describes the customs and day-to-day life of a family living in the Himalaya Mountains"--Provided by publisher.
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Himalaya: Life on the Edge of the World
By David Zurick, Pradyumna Prasad KaranThe majestic natural beauty of the Himalaya Mountains has inspired awe and religious devotion in people around the world for millennia. With thirty peaks rising over 25,000 feet (7,620 meters)...
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Himalaya: Dynamics of a Giant, Tectonic Units and Structure of the Himalaya
By Rodolphe Cattin, Jean-Luc Epard... arc crust (Paterson and Ducea 2015). Hence, long-term geochronological and geochemical records covering the lifetime of magmatic activity in arcs provide important constraints on evolving subduction processes during ... evolution from an ...