Author: Kenneth Mason
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781258111458
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Abode of Snow
Author: Kenneth Mason
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781258111458
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781258111458
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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The Abode of Snow
Author: Andrew Wilson
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Category : Himalaya Mountains
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
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Category : Himalaya Mountains
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The New International Encyclopædia
Author: Frank Moore Colby
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 874
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 874
Book Description
Himalaya
Author: Ed Douglas
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473546141
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
'Magnificent ... this book is unlikely to be surpassed' Telegraph This is the first major history of the Himalaya: an epic story of peoples, cultures and adventures among the world's highest mountains. SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 DUFF COOPER PRIZE An epic story of peoples, cultures and adventures among the world's highest mountains: here Jesuit missionaries exchanged technologies with Tibetan Lamas, Mongol Khans employed Nepali craftsmen, Armenian merchants exchanged musk and gold with Mughals. Featuring scholars and tyrants, bandits and CIA agents, go-betweens and revolutionaries, Himalaya is a panoramic, character-driven history on the grandest but also the most human scale, by far the most comprehensive yet written, encompassing geology and genetics, botany and art, and bursting with stories of courage and resourcefulness. 'Magisterial' The Times 'His observations are sharp...his writing glows' New York Review of Books SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 BOARDMAN TASKER AWARD FOR MOUNTAIN LITERATURE
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473546141
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
'Magnificent ... this book is unlikely to be surpassed' Telegraph This is the first major history of the Himalaya: an epic story of peoples, cultures and adventures among the world's highest mountains. SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 DUFF COOPER PRIZE An epic story of peoples, cultures and adventures among the world's highest mountains: here Jesuit missionaries exchanged technologies with Tibetan Lamas, Mongol Khans employed Nepali craftsmen, Armenian merchants exchanged musk and gold with Mughals. Featuring scholars and tyrants, bandits and CIA agents, go-betweens and revolutionaries, Himalaya is a panoramic, character-driven history on the grandest but also the most human scale, by far the most comprehensive yet written, encompassing geology and genetics, botany and art, and bursting with stories of courage and resourcefulness. 'Magisterial' The Times 'His observations are sharp...his writing glows' New York Review of Books SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 BOARDMAN TASKER AWARD FOR MOUNTAIN LITERATURE
Records of the Past
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 678
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
The Land of the Lamas
Author: William Woodville Rockhill
Publisher:
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
The Earth and its Inhabitants. The Universal Geography. India and Indo-china
Author: Elisée Reclus
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385528666
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385528666
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
The Earth and Its Inhabitants ...
Author: Elisée Reclus
Publisher:
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 624
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The Earth and Its Inhabitants: India and Indo-China
Author: Elisée Reclus
Publisher:
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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Publisher:
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
The Earth and its Inhabitants. Asia
Author: Ernest George Ravenstein
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385466512
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1884.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385466512
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1884.