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The Hidden Himalayas

Door V. Carroll Dunham e.a.

Categorie	Azië
Boeknummer	#373101-KA42
Titel	The Hidden Himalayas
Auteur	Dunham, V. Carroll & Thomas L. Kelly
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	New York : Abbeville Press
Jaar van uitgave	1987
ISBN10	089659758x
ISBN13	9780896597587
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original blind stamped blue cloth, dust jacket, illustrated with numerous photographs in colour, square (circa 26x26cm).
Samenvatting	Two young Americans take us to Humla, an ancient territory at the edge of Nepal where no Westemer has ever lived before. In breathtaking photographs and evocative prose, Thomas Kelly and Carroll Dunham capture Humla's limitless vistas and disclose intimate details of the lives of its extraordinary people: yak herders, caravan drivers, shamans, and brides who are shared among brothers. Here is a land of eternally snow-capped mountains and sweeping valleys, eerie, forbidding as the landscape of some distant moon, its people all but forgotten by the rest of the world. Their lives are a struggle -- the alpine soil metes out sustenance grudgingly, and long winters threaten to banish the warmth of life forever. Yet these lives yield untold riches. As if the splendid isolation and sheer altitude ... (Lees verder)of the hidden Himalayas bring them closer to the gods, the people of this land are possessed of a spirituality few Westerners will ever know. Kelly's extraordinary photographs are accompanied by Dunham's evocative and lyrical account of life through four seasons of life in Humla: fall, winter, spring, and summer. In a world made easy, accessible, and all too familiar by supersonic travel, television, and communication at the click of a mouse, here is an intimate, moving adventure in one of the last truly exotic places on earth.
Pagina's	200
Conditie	Goed — Spine dust jacket slightly discoloured.
Prijs	€ 15,00

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