Himalaya : a human history
Item details
- ISBN: 9780393541991
- ISBN: 0393541991
- ISBN: 9780393542004
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Physical Description:
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581 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm - Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2021]
- Copyright: ©2020
Contents / Notes
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 532-550) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Pilgrims -- Origins -- The First Explorers -- Lost Kingdoms -- The Architects of Xanadu -- The Rise of Gorkha -- The High Road to Tibet -- Trade Wars -- The Hard Road to Sagauli -- Mapping the Himalaya -- The Tyrant and the Scholar -- Crossing Borders -- 'Forbidden' City -- The Plant Hunters -- The First Mountaineers -- Everest Diplomacy -- Utopias -- Summit Fever -- Songs from a Dark Cell -- Claiming Chomolungma. |
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Subject: | Himalaya Mountains Region Civilization Himalaya Mountains Region History HISTORY / Asia / General Civilization Himalaya Mountains Region |
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