A Mountain in Tibet

The Search for Mount Kailas and the Sources of the Great Rivers of Asia

Charles Allen (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

254 Seiten

1983
Futura Publications (Verlag)
978-0-7088-2351-4 (ISBN)

Infos

From 1808 to 1908 a succession of explorers and adventurers set out into the Himalayas and Tibet to discover the sources of the four great rivers of the Indian sub-continent: the Indus, Sutlej, Ganga and Brahmaputra. This is an account of that "last great adventure".

Autor

Charles Allen is the author of a number of bestselling books about Indian and the colonial experience elsewhere. A traveller, historian and master storyteller he is one of the great chroniclers of India.

Produkt-Details

• Zusatzinfo: 8pp b&w photographs
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 120 x 180 mm
• Gewicht: 234 g
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Asien
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• ISBN-10: 0-7088-2351-3 / 0708823513
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7088-2351-4 / 9780708823514
• Zustand: Neuware