HIMALAYA: A HUMAN HISTORY [Rare UK 1st ed] Ed Douglas 2020 Hardcover New Multiple Copies Available (Douglas, Ed)

	Item #: BK4256-8504 HIMALAYA: A HUMAN HISTORY [Rare UK 1st ed] Ed Douglas 2020 Hardcover New Multiple Copies Available By Douglas, Ed Price: $29.99 List Price: $50.00 You Save $20.01 (40%) Add to wish list Click Here For Related Selections
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London, 2020, 1st UK edition. 576 pp, 16 pages of illustrations, 4 color photographs. Thick hardcover with DJ, New. This book is large and heavy. Extra postage will be requested for Media Mail, Priority Mail and International Mail. A magisterial history of the Himalaya: an epic story of peoples, cultures, and adventures among the world�s highest mountains. For centuries, the unique and astonishing geography of the Himalaya has attracted those in search of spiritual and literal elevation: pilgrims, adventurers, and mountaineers seeking to test themselves among the world�s most spectacular and challenging peaks. But far from being wild and barren, the Himalaya has been home to a diversity of indigenous and local cultures, a crucible of world religions, a crossroads for trade, and a meeting point and conflict zone for empires past and present. In this landmark work, nearly two decades in the making, Ed Douglas makes a thrilling case for the Himalaya�s importance in global history and offers a soaring account of life at the "roof of the world." Spanning millennia, from the earliest inhabitants to the present conflicts over Tibet and Everest, Himalaya explores history, culture, climate, geography, and politics. Douglas profiles the great kings of Kathmandu and Nepal; he describes the architects who built the towering white Stupas that distinguish Himalayan architecture; and he traces the flourishing evolution of Hinduism, Islam, and Buddhism that brought Himalayan spirituality to the world. He also depicts with great drama the story of how the East India Company grappled for dominance with China�s emperors, how India fought Mao�s Communists, and how mass tourism and ecological transformation are obscuring the bloody legacy of the Cold War. Himalaya is history written on the grandest yet also the most human scale―encompassing geology and genetics, botany and art, and bursting with stories of courage and resourcefulness. Review �An extraordinarily rich and wide investigation into the exhilarating story of the Himalaya. Ed Douglas knows this story in his bones, from his travels and a wonderful range of scholarship, which leaves him perfectly placed to fill a huge gap in our view of how the world fits together.� - Michael Pye, author of The Edge of the World From the Back Cover The Himalaya are shrouded in their stories, like monsoon clouds: stories of secret knowledge and new horizons, about somewhere at the end of things, somewhere beyond. These myths hardly ever recognised the complexity and richness of the cultures that developed there over millennia, as varied as the mountains that shaped them. Those cultures were either ignored or appropriated by outsiders looking to profit. That tension, between myth and reality, still tears at the Himalaya today. About the Author Ed Douglas is an award-winning writer with a passion for the Himalaya. The author of a dozen books, including a biography of Tenzing Norgay, he has reported from the region for more than twenty-five years, covering the Maoist insurgency in Nepal and the Tibetan occupation. He was the editor of the UK Alpine Journal, the oldest mountaineering journal published by the Alpine Club. The Alpine Club was founded in London in 1857 and is the world's first mountaineering club. The primary focus of the club is to support mountaineers who climb in the Alps and the Greater Ranges of the world's mountains.
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