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Himalaya

byEd Douglas

A Human History

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'Magnificent ... this book is unlikely to be surpassed' Telegraph

This is the first major history of the Himalaya: an epic story of peoples, cultures and adventures among the world's highest mountains.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 DUFF COOPER PRIZE

An epic story of peoples, cultures and adventures among the world's highest mountains: here Jesuit missionaries exchanged technologies with Tibetan Lamas, Mongol Khans employed Nepali craftsmen, Armenian merchants exchanged musk and gold with Mughals.

Featuring scholars and tyrants, bandits and CIA agents, go-betweens and revolutionaries, Himalaya is a panoramic, character-driven history on the grandest but also the most human scale, by far the most comprehensive yet written, encompassing geology and genetics, botany and art, and bursting with stories of courage and resourcefulness.

'Magisterial' The Times

'His observations are sharp...his writing glows' New York Review of Books

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 BOARDMAN TASKER AWARD FOR MOUNTAIN LITERATURE

Magnificent ... a far-reaching, compendious and elegantly turned examination of a region and its peoples, this book is unlikely to be surpassed

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About Ed Douglas

Ed Douglas is an award-winning writer who has has been a climber for forty years. He is the author of numerous books including Himalaya: A Human History, Kinder Scout: The People's Mountain and a biography of Tensing Norgay. He is the editor of the Alpine Journal and won the Boardman Tasker Award for mountain literature in 2010. He lives in Sheffield.
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  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • ISBN: 9781473546141
  • Length: 592 pages
  • Price: £11.99
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