Himalaya : a human history / Ed Douglas.
Publisher: London : Vintage, 2021Description: ix, 581 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) ; 20 cmISBN:- 9781784704483
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| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Loanable Book | Library | General Collection | 954.96 DOU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 000437292 |
Shortlisted for the 2020 Duff Cooper prize.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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, Himalayas 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. - Book cover.
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