A Mountain In Tibet: The Search for Mount Kailas and the Sources of the Great Rivers of Asia [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Allen, Charles

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0349139385 ISBN 13: 9780349139388

Casa editrice: Abacus, 2013

Riassunto

Throughout the East there runs a legend of a great mountain at the centre of the world, where four rivers have their source. Charles Allen traces this legend to Western Tibet where there stands Kailas, worshipped by Hindus and Buddhists alike as the home of their gods and the navel of the world. Close by are the sources of four mighty rivers: the sacred Ganges, the Indus, the Sutlej and Tsangpo-Brahmaputra.

For centuries Kailas remained an enigma to the outside world. Then a succession of remarkable men took up the challenge of penetrating the hostile, frozen wastelands beyond the Western Himalayas, culminating in the great age of discovery, the final years of the Victorian era.

A Mountain in Tibet is an extraordinary story of exploration and high adventure, full of the excitement and colour expected from the author of Plain Tales from the Raj.

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Recensione

For 30 years Allen has been quietly plugging away at the unfashionable field of colonial history, producing a whole shelf-full of well-researched, well-written and eminently readable works of narrative history, illuminating a whole succession of previously unwritten corners of British Indian history (William Dalrymple)

Descrizione del libro

A classic book from the bestselling travel writer and historian, Charles Allen, author of Plain Tales from the Raj, first published by Abacus in 1983.

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• Editore: Abacus
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0349139385
• ISBN 13: 9780349139388
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 304