Author: Kenneth Mason
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781258111458
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Abode of Snow
Author: Kenneth Mason
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781258111458
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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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
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Category : Himalaya Mountains
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Blackwood's Magazine
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 842
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 842
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Records of the Past
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 678
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 678
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The Living Age
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Languages : en
Pages : 838
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Languages : en
Pages : 838
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Himalaya
Author: Ed Douglas
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473546141
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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'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 : 480
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
The International Cyclopedia
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 986
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 986
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The International Cyclopædia
Author: Harry Thurston Pech
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 992
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 992
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Library of Universal Knowledge
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 890
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 890
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The American Universal Cyclopædia
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 892
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 892
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