Mountains of Tartary
Author : Eric Earle Shipton
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Page : 224 pages
File Size : 13,47 MB
Release : 1975
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Author : Eric Earle Shipton
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Page : 224 pages
File Size : 13,47 MB
Release : 1975
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Author : Eric Shipton
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Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,40 MB
Release : 1951
Category : Mountaineering
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Author : Eric Shipton
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Page : 224 pages
File Size : 29,71 MB
Release : 1951
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Author : Eric Shipton
Publisher : Vertebrate Publishing
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 47,1 MB
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1910240621
In Mountains of Tartary , mountaineering and explorer Eric Shipton describes his climbs and explorations in northern and central Asia, taking the reader places that most would otherwise never go and writing with humour and self-deprecation. During the Second World War, and up until 1951, Shipton worked as consul general in Kunming and Kashgar in China, and as a diplomat in Hungary and Persia. In Mountains of Tartary, he describes his climbs and explorations that take him from the barren steppes of central Asia, to glass-clear lakes and forested slopes. Shipton and his party enjoy varying degrees of hospitality from the local people and occasionally potentially dangerous encounters. The book details the exploits of the climbers, explorers and guides, including a hilarious drunken banquet with government officials. Mountains of Tartary is like a postcard from history – a must-read for any keen climber, walker or explorer.
Author : Eric Earle Shipton
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Page : 224 pages
File Size : 25,8 MB
Release : 1951
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Author : Eric Earle Shipton
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Page : 224 pages
File Size : 27,94 MB
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Author : Du Halde
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Page : 482 pages
File Size : 25,59 MB
Release : 1741
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Author : Robert D. Kaplan
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 31,74 MB
Release : 2014-11-12
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0804153477
Eastward to Tartary, Robert Kaplan's first book to focus on a single region since his bestselling Balkan Ghosts, introduces readers to an explosive and little-known part of the world destined to become a tinderbox of the future. Kaplan takes us on a spellbinding journey into the heart of a volatile region, stretching from Hungary and Romania to the far shores of the oil-rich Caspian Sea. Through dramatic stories of unforgettable characters, Kaplan illuminates the tragic history of this unstable area that he describes as the new fault line between East and West. He ventures from Turkey, Syria, and Israel to the turbulent countries of the Caucasus, from the newly rich city of Baku to the deserts of Turkmenistan and the killing fields of Armenia. The result is must reading for anyone concerned about the state of our world in the decades to come.
Author : Eric Shipton
Publisher : Mountaineers Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,55 MB
Release : 1997-07-31
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780898865394
Nanda Devi; Blank on the Map; Upon That Mountain; Mt. Everest Reconnaissance Expedition 1951; Mountains of Tartary; and Land of Tempest.
Author : Eric Shipton
Publisher : Vertebrate Publishing
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 44,75 MB
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1910240265
Upon that Mountain is the first autobiography of the mountaineer and explorer Eric Shipton. In it, he describes all his pre-war climbing, including his Everest bids of the 1930s, and his second Karakoram survey in 1939, when he returned to Snow Lake to complete the mapping of the ranges flanking the Hispar and Choktoi glacier systems around the Ogre. Crossing great swathes of the Himalaya, the book, like so many of Shipton's works, is both entertaining and an important addition to the mountain literature genre. It captures an important period in mountaineering history - that just before the Second World War - an ends on an elegiac note as Shipton describes his last evening at the starkly-beautiful snow lake, before he returns to a 'civilisation' about to embark on a cataclysmic war.