Download or read book Walk to Remember The Karakoram Highway written by Naba Basar and published by . This book was released on 2020-08 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you decide to travel you have two choices; you can choose to be a tourist travelling for pleasure or a traveler passionate to explore and ready to leave your comfort-zone. The moment you choose to step out of your safe-haven, an overwhelming feeling of being in the heart of nature grips you and the countless surprises that follow along the way together make for a rewarding experience, like never before. I travel because every experience, destination and person I meet changes me and that is what this book is about; getting to know the warm-hearted humans living in the majestic and treacherous mountains.This book is for those who wish to know more about the opportunities travel offers and how to make the most out of them. It is for those who wish to broaden their horizons, change perspectives and add to their personality.
Download or read book Karakoram Highway written by John King and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only guide to the Karakoram Highway (KKH) makes this lost link in the ancient Asian 'high road' accessible to all. This book allows you to explore the region's mind-bending mountain scenery and rich cultural diversity and brings the mystical trip from north-western China to northern Pakistan to your fingertips. Book jacket.
Download or read book Karakoram written by Siân Pritchard-Jones and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, Karakoram, is the story of three great empires that eventually clashed amongst the most rugged mountains of the world - the Pamirs, the Tien Shan and the Karakoram. The Russian 'bear', the British 'lion' and the Chinese 'dragon' were the three great adversarial animals that dominated Asia in the late 19th century. This was the Great Game - a chess game of historical intrigue. The modern Karakoram Highway between Pakistan and China is the final twist in the story - the highway of history. For today's travellers, the region is a vast melting pot of people, cultures, scenery and excitement. But what will be the scenario for the travellers of tomorrow? Will they be forced by security issues and deadly bureaucracy to see the world only through computerised screen images divorced from reality? Or will they too be able to journey across lands of different cultures, admiring the jewels of nature? Perhaps, despite the contradictions of modern mankind, they will experience the touches of kindness that people everywhere are still eager to show to a stranger. This book tells more than a story; it is an historical amalgam laced with travellers' tales of Asia over 40 years, illustrated with a vivid collection of nearly 200 photographs.
Download or read book Karakoram highway written by John Callanan and published by . This book was released on 2001-06 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of Karakoram Highway written by Muhammad Mumtaz Khalid and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thieves Liars and Mountaineers written by Mark Horrell and published by Mountain Footsteps Press. This book was released on 2011-11-26 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the tale of Mark Horrell’s not-so-nearly ascent of Gasherbrum in Pakistan, of how one man’s boredom and frustration was conquered by a gutsy combination of exhaustion, cowardice, and sheer mountaineering incompetence. He made not one, not two, but three intrepid assaults, some of which got quite a distance beyond Base Camp, and overcame many perilous circumstances along the way. The mountaineer Joe Simpson famously crawled for three days with a broken leg, but did he ever have to read Angels and Demons by Dan Brown while waiting for a weather window? But that’s enough about Mark’s attempt; there were some talented climbers on the mountain as well, and this story is also about them. How did they get on? Heroes, villains, oddballs and madmen – 8,000m peaks attract them all, and drama, intrigue and cock-ups aplenty were inevitable.
Download or read book On a Truck Alone to McMahon written by Nabaneeta Dev Sen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-04 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I wasn’t trying to discover new places. I wasn’t going to break or create a record. I was going only on an impulse, entirely my own, just out of the natural curiosity that life brings, the delight of living. Was this not a valid enough reason? With curiosity in her heart and a prayer on her lips, Nabaneeta hauled herself on to a truck and set off on a journey to fill her unfilled bag of stories. Sacks, paper cartons, steel cupboards, wicker furniture, baskets of angry, clucking chickens, and a sharp smell surrounded her. How many days in this stench? How many hours? How many endless moments? This is a travelogue of Nabaneeta’s journey from Jorhat in Assam all the way to the McMahon line at the Indo-Tibetan border, a trip undertaken on an impulse, detailing her encounters with countless ordinary individuals, their reactions to a middle-aged woman’s solo road trip in India in 1977, and the extraordinary events that unfold along the way. Reflective and humorous, the narrative presents travel as an avenue of liberation.
Download or read book Never Again written by Jeremy Cameron and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2017-03-22 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elderly British men display a variety of annoying habits. They write letters to the newspapers; they drink too much; they reminisce about the old days; they make lewd comments to younger women; they shout at the television screen; and they go for long walks and get lost. Jeremy Cameron chose the last of these options. Trying to emulate Patrick Leigh Fermor's feat of 1933, he walked from Hook of Holland to Istanbul. Leigh Fermor was a legendary figure. Scholar, multilinguist, beautiful prose stylist, war hero, tough guy, charmer and famous lover: Cameron is none of these things and he also suffers from a heart condition. Rest assured that there will be no tedious details of operations or stoicism in this book. Nor will there be descriptions of understated generosity, quiet irony or British phlegm. The main point of travel is to recognise the virtues of staying at home. When at home, it is not possible to get bogged down in Alpine snow, fall over on one's face on Kosovan tarmac or suffer a comprehensive mugging on deserted roads in Greece. Nor does one have to speak foreign languages, eat foreign food or, above all, drink terrible tea. It is about two thousand miles from Hook of Holland to Istanbul. Thirteen countries lie in wait for the walker. They have many wonderful sights and much fascinating history. Readers will not find them in this book. They will, however, find a number of stories of varying authenticity and some very dubious observations about life. By the time Turkey arrived, Cameron was utterly and completely fed up with the whole process. Never again would he do anything quite so stupid. He is currently walking round all the places in England beginning with the letter Q.
Download or read book HOLINESS IS EASY written by Ross Thompson and published by Ross Thompson. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title is provocative. It is supposed to be. Holiness as easy is a foreign concept to most Christians. It should not be. Jesus described His perfect holy life with His Father as easy. The book of Isaiah tells us 'simple persons' and 'fools' can successfully walk on God's Holy Highway. Salvation was a one time supernatural event in your life as a believer. Holiness should be a one time supernatural event in the life of every believer. Would God say'You be holy as I am holy' if it was impossible for us to live it? He asks us to do only that which He gives ability to do. We have not understood or been taught the revelation of holy living in the Bible. It is not about struggle. Jesus did the hard work. Our part is to receive. You did not work for salvation. Neither does holiness come by human effort. The Bible clearly tells us how. That is the subject of this book.
Download or read book Questioning Borders written by Robin Visser and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indigenous knowledge of local ecosystems often challenges settler-colonial cosmologies that naturalize resource extraction and the relocation of nomadic, hunting, foraging, or fishing peoples. Questioning Borders explores recent ecoliterature by Han and non-Han Indigenous writers of China and Taiwan, analyzing relations among humans, animals, ecosystems, and the cosmos in search of alternative possibilities for creativity and consciousness. Informed by extensive field research, Robin Visser compares literary works by Bai, Bunun, Kazakh, Mongol, Tao, Tibetan, Uyghur, Wa, Yi, and Han Chinese writers set in Xinjiang, Tibet, Inner Mongolia, Southwest China, and Taiwan, sites of extensive development, migration, and climate change impacts. Visser contrasts the dominant Han Chinese cosmology of center and periphery that informs what she calls “Beijing Westerns” with Indigenous and hybridized ways of relating to the world that challenge borders, binaries, and hierarchies. By centering Indigenous cosmologies, this book aims to decolonize approaches to ecocriticism, comparative literature, and Chinese and Sinophone studies as well as to inspire new modes of sustainable flourishing in the Anthropocene.
Download or read book Three Cups of Tea written by Greg Mortenson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-03-02 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban’s backyard Anyone who despairs of the individual’s power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who, following a 1993 climb of Pakistan’s treacherous K2, was inspired by a chance encounter with impoverished mountain villagers and promised to build them a school. Over the next decade he built fifty-five schools—especially for girls—that offer a balanced education in one of the most isolated and dangerous regions on earth. As it chronicles Mortenson’s quest, which has brought him into conflict with both enraged Islamists and uncomprehending Americans, Three Cups of Tea combines adventure with a celebration of the humanitarian spirit.
Download or read book Victory Over K2 Second Highest Peak in the World written by Ardito Desio and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Grand Adventures written by Alastair Humphreys and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Enthusiastic, pleasingly madcap’ Geographical Adventure – something that’s new and exhilarating, outside your comfort zone. Adventures change you and how you see the world, and all you need is an open mind, bags of enthusiasm and boundless curiosity. Recommended for viewing on a colour tablet.
Download or read book The China Pakistan Axis written by Andrew Small and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Beijing-Islamabad axis plays a central role in Asia's geopolitics, from India's rise to the prospects for a post-American Afghanistan, from the threat of nuclear terrorism to the continent's new map of mines, ports and pipelines. China is Pakistan's great economic hope and its most trusted military partner; Pakistan is the battleground for China's encounters with Islamic militancy and the heart of its efforts to counter-balance the emerging US-India partnership. For decades, each country has been the other's only 'all-weather' friend. Yet the relationship is still little understood. The wildest claims about it are widely believed, while many of its most dramatic developments are hidden from the public eye. This book sets out the recent history of Sino-Pakistani ties and their ramifications for the West, for India, for Afghanistan, and for Asia as a whole. It tells the stories behind some of its most sensitive aspects, including Beijing's support for Pakistan's nuclear program, China's dealings with the Taliban, and the Chinese military's planning for crises in Pakistan. It describes a relationship increasingly shaped by Pakistan's internal strife, and the dilemmas China faces between the need for regional stability and the imperative for strategic competition with India and the USA."--Amazon.com.
Download or read book The Trekker s Guide to the Himalaya and Karakoram written by Hugh Swift and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1982 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pakistan Trekking Guide written by Isobel Shaw and published by Vanguard Publications. This book was released on 1993 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This complete handbook to the new frontier of alpine adventure contains 100 treks and 49 detailed maps. The authors spent five years personally exploring trekking possibilities while consulting the notes of fellow trekkers and Pakistanis. Literary excerpts and sidebars illuminate local culture.
