The Abode of Snow
Author : Andrew Wilson
Publisher :
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 29,93 MB
Release : 1875
Category : Himalaya Mountains
ISBN :
Author : Andrew Wilson
Publisher :
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 29,93 MB
Release : 1875
Category : Himalaya Mountains
ISBN :
Author : Andrew Wilson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 30,86 MB
Release : 2024-03-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385394570
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Author : Andrew Wilson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 19,96 MB
Release : 2024-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385465060
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Author : Andrew Wilson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 11,56 MB
Release : 2024-06-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385524334
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Author : Andrew Wilson (Traveller.)
Publisher :
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 29,39 MB
Release : 1876
Category : Himalaya Mountains
ISBN :
Author : Kenneth Mason
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 14,96 MB
Release : 2011-10-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781258111458
Author : Ed Douglas
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,80 MB
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0393882462
A magisterial history of the Himalaya: an epic story of peoples, cultures, and adventures among the world’s highest mountains. For centuries, the unique and astonishing geography of the Himalaya has attracted those in search of spiritual and literal elevation: pilgrims, adventurers, and mountaineers seeking to test themselves among the world’s most spectacular and challenging peaks. But far from being wild and barren, the Himalaya has been home to a diversity of indigenous and local cultures, a crucible of world religions, a crossroads for trade, and a meeting point and conflict zone for empires past and present. In this landmark work, nearly two decades in the making, Ed Douglas makes a thrilling case for the Himalaya’s importance in global history and offers a soaring account of life at the "roof of the world." Spanning millennia, from the earliest inhabitants to the present conflicts over Tibet and Everest, Himalaya explores history, culture, climate, geography, and politics. Douglas profiles the great kings of Kathmandu and Nepal; he describes the architects who built the towering white Stupas that distinguish Himalayan architecture; and he traces the flourishing evolution of Hinduism, Islam, and Buddhism that brought Himalayan spirituality to the world. He also depicts with great drama the story of how the East India Company grappled for dominance with China’s emperors, how India fought Mao’s Communists, and how mass tourism and ecological transformation are obscuring the bloody legacy of the Cold War. Himalaya is history written on the grandest yet also the most human scale—encompassing geology and genetics, botany and art, and bursting with stories of courage and resourcefulness.
Author : William Woodville Rockhill
Publisher :
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 24,43 MB
Release : 1891
Category : China
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 18,11 MB
Release : 1889
Category : Religions (Proposed, universal, etc.)
ISBN :
Author : John Banville
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 12,87 MB
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1488077193
*NATIONAL BESTSELLER* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER AWARD* A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year A New York Times Editors’ Choice Pick “Banville sets up and then deftly demolishes the Agatha Christie format…superbly rich and sophisticated.”—New York Times Book Review The incomparable Booker Prize winner’s next great crime novel—the story of a family whose secrets resurface when a parish priest is found murdered in their ancestral home Detective Inspector St. John Strafford has been summoned to County Wexford to investigate a murder. A parish priest has been found dead in Ballyglass House, the family seat of the aristocratic, secretive Osborne family. The year is 1957 and the Catholic Church rules Ireland with an iron fist. Strafford—flinty, visibly Protestant and determined to identify the murderer—faces obstruction at every turn, from the heavily accumulating snow to the culture of silence in the tight-knit community he begins to investigate. As he delves further, he learns the Osbornes are not at all what they seem. And when his own deputy goes missing, Strafford must work to unravel the ever-expanding mystery before the community’s secrets, like the snowfall itself, threaten to obliterate everything. Beautifully crafted, darkly evocative and pulsing with suspense, Snow is “the Irish master” (New Yorker) John Banville at his page-turning best. Don't miss John Banville's next novel, The Lock-up! Other riveting mysteries from John Banville: April in Spain