Download or read book Unknown Himalayas written by Himanshu Joshi and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Snow-clad peaks rising majestically in the horizon, mysterious lakes reflecting the mountains ringing them, massive glaciers and fast-flowing rivers – all this and more are the Himalaya, a world stamped by divinity. Here too are mountain trails winding up to far-flung corners where people in remote villages pursue age-old lifestyles, almost untouched by the contemporary world. Lavishly illustrated with vibrant colour photographs, this book takes you on a journey through these sublime heights, capturing the drama, diversity and mystic beauty of the Himalayas, up pristine tracks leading to rarely explored places. From snow-covered Ladakh, with its stark-cold desert, the Kashmir valley where the ancient pilgrimage trail to the Amarnath cave begins, to Himachal, with its stunning views from Shimla to the remote Spiti valley and Uttarakhand’s temple towns steeped in mythology, the journey moves on to Sikkim, crowned by the magnificent Kanchenjunga mountain and the rainforests of Arunachal. On the way, visit fascinating people like the Changpas tending their yaks in Ladakh, the Lepchas of Sikkim, said to be a vanishing tribe, and the Wanchos of Arunachal, the last headhunters of the world. The odyssey continues outside India, to Nepal, Bhutan and Tibet where the mystique of the Himalaya deepens. Magical places where the chanting of Buddhist lamas resounds in the mountains of Tibet and Bhutan, where exquisite monasteries perch precariously on steep inclines and the dzongs (forts) of Bhutan have stood vigil since the twelfth century are brought to life by stunning photographs and evocative descriptions, enticing you to visit the far-reaches of the Himalaya or merely turn the pages to enjoy a visual feast.
Download or read book High Himalaya Unknown Valleys written by Harish Kapadia and published by Indus Publishing. This book was released on 2002-03 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Quest for the Yeti written by Reinhold Messner and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-04-20 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climbing solo in Eastern Tibet in 1986, Reinhold Messner confronted . . . something. Since that moment, he has been obsessed with what the Western media has called the "abominable snowman". Widely considered the greatest living mountain climber, Messner had found his greatest challenge--to solve the age old mystery of the yeti. Photos.
Download or read book Across the Frozen Himalaya written by Harish Kohli and published by Indus Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 10 maps, 48 colour pictures. When Harish Kohli and his team of seven members reached the summit of the Karakoram Pass in the early afternoon of 17th February 1995, they had been on the move for twelve gruelling hours. As they began the treacherous descent, the light breeze turned into a storm and then into a blizzard, plummet-ing the temperature to minus 48 degrees Celcius. Later that night when they reached their base, after twenty-six horrifying hours, two of the members were frostbitten, one of them losing seven of his fingers. But for the Ski-Himalaya team, it was only the beginning of their adventure, which became one of the most momentous journeys in mountaineering history.
Download or read book Warriors of the Himalayas written by Donald J. LaRocca and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2006 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in-depth examination of the fascinating and virtually unknown of armor and weapons from Tibet, dating from the 13th to the 20th century.
Download or read book Art of the Himalayas written by Pratapaditya Pal and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A millennium of paintings, textiles, metal sculptures, ritual objects; aesthetic, religious contexts.
Download or read book Textiles Costumes and Ornaments of the Western Himalaya written by Omacanda Hāṇḍā and published by Indus Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Present Study, An Attempt Has Been To Present A Kaleidoscopic View Of The Whole Ethno-Cultural Scenario Of The Western Himalayan Region Through The Traditional Textiles, Costumes And Ornaments Of The People.
Download or read book Himalayan Fermented Foods written by Jyoti Prakash Tamang and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2009-08-17 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The magnificent Himalayan Mountains, the highest in the world and home to the famed Mount Everest and K2, are also imbued with a rich diversity of ethnic fermented foods. Dr. Jyoti Prakash Tamang, one of the leading authorities on food microbiology, has studied Himalayan fermented foods and beverages for the last twenty-two years. His comprehensive
Download or read book Exploring Pangi Himalaya written by Minakshi Chaudhry and published by Indus Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Is A Detailed Account Of The Pangi Valley In Himachal And The People Living There. The Lifestyle Of Pangwals, Their Customs, Traditions, Institutions, Folk Dances And Folk Songs Have Been Studied In This Book.
Download or read book Becoming a Mountain written by Stephen Alter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as a "wondrous book" by Gretel Ehrlich, and winner of the Kekoo Naoroji Book Award for Himalayan Literature—a journey of healing that becomes a pilgrimage for the soul. Stephen Alter was raised by American missionary parents in the hill station of Mussoorie, in the foothills of the Himalayas, where he and his wife, Ameeta, now live. Their idyllic existence was brutally interrupted when four armed intruders invaded their house and viciously attacked them, leaving them for dead. The violent assault and the trauma of almost dying left him questioning assumptions he had lived by since childhood. For the first time, he encountered the face of evil and the terror of the unknown. He felt like a foreigner in the land of his birth. This book is his account of a series of treks he took in the high Himalayas following his convalescence—to Bandar Punch (the monkey’s tail), Nanda Devi, the second highest mountain in India, and Mt. Kailash in Tibet. He set himself this goal to prove that he had healed mentally as well as physically and to re-knit his connection to his homeland. Undertaken out of sorrow, the treks become a moving soul journey, a way to rediscover mountains in his inner landscape. Weaving together observations of the natural world, Himalayan history, folklore and mythology, as well as encounters with other pilgrims along the way, Stephen Alter has given us a moving meditation on the solace of high places, and on the hidden meanings and enduring mystery of mountains.
Download or read book An Atlas of the Himalayas by a 19th Century Tibetan Lama written by Diana Lange and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-06-08 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Origins of Himalayan Studies written by David Waterhouse and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-10-28 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian Hodgson lived in Nepal from 1820 to 1843 during which time he wrote and published extensively on Nepalese culture, religion, natural history, architecture, ethnography and linguistics. Contributors from leading historians of Nepal and South Asia and from specialists in Buddhist studies, art history, linguistics, ornithology and ethnography, critically examine Hodgson's life and achievement within the context of his contribution to scholarship. Many of the drawings photographed for this book have not previously been published.
Download or read book Himalaya Bound written by Michael Benanav and published by Pegasus Books. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following his vivid account of traveling with one of the last camel caravans on earth in Men of Salt, Michael Benanav now brings us along on a journey with a tribe of forest-dwelling nomads in India. Welcomed into a family of nomadic water buffalo herders, he joins them on their annual spring migration into the Himalayas, a superb adventure that explores the relationship between humankind and wild lands, and the dubious effect of environmental conservation on peoples whose lives are inseparably intertwined with the natural world.The migration Benanav embarked upon was plagued with problems, as government officials threatened to ban this nomadic family—and others in the Van Gujjar tribe—from the high alpine meadows where they had summered for centuries. Faced with the possibility that their beloved buffaloes would starve to death, and that their age-old way of life was doomed, the family charted a risky new course, which would culminating in an astonishing mountain rescue. And Benanav was arrested for documenting the story of their plight.Intimate and enthralling, Himalaya Bound paints a sublime picture of a rarely-seen world, revealing the hopes and fears, hardships and joys, of a people who wonder if there is still a place for them on this planet.
Download or read book Himalayan Weather and Climate and their Impact on the Environment written by A.P. Dimri and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-08 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes a unique and comprehensive integrated synthesis of the current understanding of the science of Himalayan dynamics and its manifestations on physical systems and ecosystems at different spatial and temporal scales. In particular, this work covers relevant aspects of weather and climate, paleoclimate, snow, glacier and hydrology, ecology/forestry among other topics associated with the Himalayas. It highlights the role of the Himalayas in defining local to regional to global scale impact on weather and climate. It includes Himalayan impact on defining physical basis of changing glacier systems, permafrost melting/thawing, climate variability, and hydrological balances. As a result, this volume represents an important synthesized overview both for environmental and earth science researchers, and for policy makers and stakeholders interested in the physical and dynamical processes associated with the Himalayan massif.
Download or read book Lahoul the Mystery Land in the Himalayas written by Ram Nath Sahni and published by Indus Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Is A First Hand Account Of The Overall Picture Of The Beautiful Lahoul Valley Surrounded By Lofty Snow-Capped Mountain Ranges Of The Western Himalaya. The Author, A Native Of The Valley, Has Painstakingly Done A Deep Study Of Its History, Culture, Religion, Languages, Folklore And Has Uncovered The Mysteries Of Its Diversities.
Download or read book The Butterflies of India Burmah and Ceylon written by George Frederick Leycester Marshall and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-26 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Download or read book The butterflies of India Burmah and Ceylon written by Lionel de Niceville and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1886 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon. A descriptive handbook of all the known species of rhopalocerous Lepidoptera inhabiting that region, with notices of allied species occurring in the neighbouring countries along the border; with numerous illustrations.
