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Author : Graeme Dingle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:234242428
Author : Graeme Dingle,Peter Hillary
Publisher : Salem House Publishers
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Himalaya Mountains
ISBN : 0340362022
Author : Clare Harris
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226317472
For millions of people around the world, Tibet is a domain of undisturbed tradition, the Dalai Lama a spiritual guide. By contrast, the Tibet Museum opened in Lhasa by the Chinese in 1999 was designed to reclassify Tibetan objects as cultural relics and the Dalai Lama as obsolete. Suggesting that both these views are suspect, Clare E. Harris argues in The Museum on the Roof of the World that for the past one hundred and fifty years, British and Chinese collectors and curators have tried to convert Tibet itself into a museum, an image some Tibetans have begun to contest. This book is a powerful account of the museums created by, for, or on behalf of Tibetans and the nationalist agendas that have played out in them. Harris begins with the British public’s first encounter with Tibetan culture in 1854. She then examines the role of imperial collectors and photographers in representations of the region and visits competing museums of Tibet in India and Lhasa. Drawing on fieldwork in Tibetan communities, she also documents the activities of contemporary Tibetan artists as they try to displace the utopian visions of their country prevalent in the West, as well as the negative assessments of their heritage common in China. Illustrated with many previously unpublished images, this book addresses the pressing question of who has the right to represent Tibet in museums and beyond.
Author : Nicholas Shoumatoff,Nina Shoumatoff
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0472086693
Travelers and mountaineers recount their journeys and discoveries in some of the most remote places in the world
Author : Jess Butterworth
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781616208349
A story of adventure, survival, courage, and hope, set in the vivid Himalayan landscape of Tibet and India. Tash lives in Tibet, where as a practicing Buddhist she must follow many rules to avoid the wrath of the occupying Chinese soldiers. Life remains peaceful as long as Tash, her family, and their community hide their religion and don’t mention its leader, the Dalai Lama. The quiet is ruptured when a man publicly sets himself on fire to protest the occupation. In the crackdown that follows, soldiers break into Tash’s house and seize her parents. Tash barely escapes, and soon she and her best friend, Sam, along with two borrowed yaks, flee across the mountains, where they face blizzards, hunger, a treacherous landscape, and the constant threat of capture. It’s a long, dangerous trip to the Indian border and safety—and not all will make it there. This action-packed novel tells a story of courage, hope, and the powerful will to survive, even in the most desperate circumstances.
Author : Graeme Dingle,Peter Hillary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Himalaya Mountains
ISBN : 0340320400
Author : Tom Lutz
Publisher : OR Books
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-21
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781682190579
“I am inordinately proud of my travels and at the same time embarrassed by my pride in them. I feel alternately overflowing and empty, replete with gratitude for my good fortune, and abashed at the overentitled, obsessive nature of my need to continue. I feel sometimes like the most interesting man in the world, sometimes like the most obtuse. I am driven onward and yet, even as I chart my next adventure, I remain unsure why I should want to, unclear why I need to. And I do need to. The road beckons me, and always has. But am I running toward something? Running away? Is there a difference?” —from the foreword Tom Lutz is addicted to journeying. Sometimes he stops at the end of the road, sometimes he travels further. In this richly packed portmanteau of traveler’s tales, we accompany him as he drives beyond the blacktop in Morocco, to the Saharan dunes on the Algerian border, and east of Ankara into the Hittite ruins of Boğazkale. We ride alongside as he hitches across Uzbekistan and the high mountain passes of Kyrgyzstan into western China. We catch up with him as he traverses the shores of a lake in Malawi, and disappear with him into the disputed areas of the Ukraine and Moldova. We follow his footsteps through the swamps of Sri Lanka, the wilds of Azerbaijan, the plains of Tibet, the casinos of Tanzania, the peasant hinterlands of Romania and Albania, and the center of Swaziland, where we join him in watching the king pick his next wife. All along the way, we witness his perplexity in trying to understand a compulsion to keep moving, ever onward, to the ends of the earth.
Author : Richard Nelsson
Publisher : Guardian Books
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-05
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780852653579
Throughout its history the Guardian has had unparalleled access to mountaineers and climbers, and its coverage of the sport is second to none. From Edward Whymper's conquest of the Matterhorn in 1865 through to the first ever ascent of Everest in 1953, and on to the extreme climbing (and associated apparatus) that dominates the modern-day incarnation of the sport, the paper has chronicled every development with insight and intelligence. This beguiling collection draws together a selection of Guardian writing that is both informative and celebratory, tracking the sport's history and uncovering how public perception has changed over time. - Postings on how cigarettes 'aided breathing' on some of the earliest Everest expeditions - Victorian advice to 'lady climbers': 'Small rings should be sewn inside the seams of the skirt ... [so] that the whole dress may be drawn up at a moment's notice to the requisite height' - Articles on scrambling, fell-running, rock-climbing and rambling. Whether you're a serious mountaineer or a weekend rambler, On the Roof of the World is packed full of insights and stories that make it the perfect bedside companion.
Author : Benjamin D. Koen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199798216
Beyond the Roof of the World is a benchmark in Medical Ethnomusicology and integrative, complementary/alternative medicine. Koen explores ancient practices of music, prayer, and healing among the Pamiri people of Tajikistan.
Author : Lachlan Fleetwood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009123112
An innovative global history of science, empire and geography explaining how the Himalaya became the highest mountains in the world.
Author : Jill Neate
Publisher : The Mountaineers Books
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0938567047
Long established as a standard reference work worldwide, this is a thorough bibliography of all mountaineering books that are of practical use to climbers or for reading pleasure or historical interest. Documenting more than 2000 books of mountaineering literature, it also includes nearly 900 climber's guidebooks, a sampling of more than 400 works of mountaineering fiction, plus journals and bibliographies.
Author : Harish Kapadia
Publisher : Indus Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Travel
ISBN : 8173870993
Complete With Several Maps, Illustrated With Many Photographs, Tables Of Road Distances And Trek Routes. This Book Is An Exhaustive Reference Work On Himachal Pradesh.
Author : Anne Frej
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-31
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1938086937
Travels across the Roof of the World provides a sweeping yet intimate view of the breathtaking peaks, splendid valleys, and extraordinary people of this vast region, from the Pamir Mountains in Kyrgyzstan through Afghanistan's fabled Hindu Kush, the Karakoram in Pakistan, and the Great Himalaya Range that stretches across northern India, Nepal, Tibet, and Bhutan.Unique in scope among photo books on the Himalaya, Travels across the Roof of the World chronicles William and Anne Frej's more than twenty pilgrimages throughout the area spanning forty years and 3,000 miles through some of the world's most remote and difficult-to-reach country. Inspired by the devotion to the practice of Tibetan Buddhism they encountered in the villagers they met on their first trek to Nepal in 1981, they set out on a quest to document Asia's highest peaks as well as the lives of the resilient people living in these remote mountain communities.When they began, trekkers from the West through these regions were few. Even now, trips are demanding--but not nearly as harsh as the daily lives of the residents, who continue to exist in a kind of stunning isolation that has allowed them to maintain the rich cultural traditions and spiritual practices that have sustained them over many centuries. Edwin Bernbaum's essay adds to the depth of the pictures, with his focus on the symbolism, religious importance, and associated legends of these sacred places. The authors also share extensive vignettes about the places they saw and how they have changed over time.
Author : sir Thomas Edward Gordon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600074579
Author : Trent Pomplun
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195377866
- And highly controversial - appeal of Hermetic philosophy in the Asian missions; the political underbelly of the Chinese Rites Controversy; and the persistent European fascination with the land of snows."--Résumé de l'éditeur.