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| Author | : Edwin T. Atkinson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 2631 |
| Release | : 2014-04-24 |
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| ISBN | : 9788181582348 |
The Himalayas have captivated the imagination and interest of humankind for centuries. The more we explore, the more we learn. India's rich history, society, and culture, are deeply influenced by the world's tallest mountain range. After all, before modern travel, the Himalayas were the most important gateway to India, for people, goods and ideas. This rare and invaluable record of the youngest mountain range in the world is back in print after a century. The extensively detailed information on every district, food habits, customs, influences, as well as the people and their vocations will provide a new perspective to a whole new generation of young readers. The aim of this publication is to make Atkinson's rich data accessible once again to researchers so that we can continue to refer to this rich source of information in our continued work to conserve the rich natural resources and ecological heritage of the Himalayas which stand frighteningly threatened by fast paced and largely unplanned development.
| Author | : Edwin Thomas Atkinson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 668 |
| Release | : 1875 |
| Genre | : North-Western Provinces (India) |
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| Author | : Edwin Thomas Atkinson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 396 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Himalaya Mountains Region |
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| Author | : Herbert H. T. Prins |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 491 |
| Release | : 2017-04-06 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 1107114713 |
The first reference to demonstrate how birds survive the high-altitude Central Asian Flyway and the threats to this unique migration.
| Author | : Andrew Quintman |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 331 |
| Release | : 2013-11-05 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0231535538 |
Tibetan biographers began writing Jetsun Milarepa's (1052–1135) life story shortly after his death, initiating a literary tradition that turned the poet and saint into a model of virtuosic Buddhist practice throughout the Himalayan world. Andrew Quintman traces this history and its innovations in narrative and aesthetic representation across four centuries, culminating in a detailed analysis of the genre's most famous example, composed in 1488 by Tsangnyön Heruka, or the "Madman of Western Tibet." Quintman imagines these works as a kind of physical body supplanting the yogin's corporeal relics.
| Author | : Laurence A. Waddell |
| Publisher | : Cosimo, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 473 |
| Release | : 2007-09-01 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 1602067236 |
The soaring peaks of the greatest mountain range on Earth have long drawn visitors from around the globe, and one of the most famous of the 19th century was British adventurer and scholar Laurence Waddell, who spent most of a decade and a half exploring the nations that cling to the sides of the mighty mountains, learning the ways of their peoples, and sharing his experiences with Western readers. Here, in this 1899 classic of Himalayan travel, Waddell introduces us to the challenges of traveling in the region, takes us on visits to Nepalese and Tibetan tea gardens, journeys to monasteries, palaces, and temples, and much more. Beautiful photos and drawings complement Waddell's exciting and gripping tales-he offers some of the first "evidence" for the mysterious creatures known as "yeti," for instance-and make this an essential work for anyone drawn to the dangerous beauty of the Himalayas. British archaeologist and Orientalist LAURENCE AUSTINE WADDELL (1854-1938) also wrote The Buddhism of Tibet or Lamaism (1894) and Lhasa and Its Mysteries (1905).
| Author | : Leszek Starkel |
| Publisher | : IGiPZ PAN |
| Total Pages | : 150 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Foothills |
| ISBN | : 8361590099 |
| Author | : Diana Lange |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 389 |
| Release | : 2020-06-08 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004416889 |
Diana Lange has solved the mysteries of six panoramic maps of 19th c. Tibet and the Himalayas, known as the British Library's Wise Collection. The result is both a spectacular illustrated ethnographic atlas and a unique compendium of knowledge concerning the mid-19th century Tibetan world, as well as a remarkable account of an academic journey of discovery.This large format book is lavishly illustrated in colour and includes four separate large foldout maps.
| Author | : Gerald Duane Berreman |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 452 |
| Release | : 1972 |
| Genre | : History |
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Gerald Berreman's ethnographic study of a hill village in India is widely regarded as a classic in the field of social anthropology. In this new edition, Berreman returns to this village after ten years to record the ethnographic continuity and change in village lifestyle. A new prologue addsimportant insights to the bases for the ethnographic descriptions and analyses by outlining the research conditions of this study. A new epilogue records Berreman's findings after revisiting the village--focusing on the trends found in the village and the surrounding region to draw implications forthe country at large.
| Author | : Edwin Thomas Atkinson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9788175362536 |
