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Himalaya Exploring the Roof of the World
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Description
Product details
Published | 15 Sep 2022 |
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Format | Paperback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 432 |
ISBN | 9781408891148 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Dimensions | 234 x 153 mm |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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Wonderful … In prose that feels as effortless as it is entertaining, Keay paints a fascinating picture of this magical region, covering everything from geology, glaciers, tectonic plates and botany to the spiritual and religious evolutions of humans
C P W Gammell, Literary Review
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There cannot be any current anglophone writer more knowledgeable about the region.
Jonathan Buckley, Times Literary Supplement
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Adds the human element to the hard rock. And what a rich vein it is
Michael Palin
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Excellent
Michael Dirda, The Washington Post
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John Keay is the master storyteller and historian. This grand narrative of Himalaya is as epic as the mountains and peoples he describes
Dan Snow
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From palaeontology to mysticism, from the East India Company to mountaineers, this is dazzlingly wide-ranging, brilliantly researched and elegantly told
Ranulph Fiennes