Author: Dervla MurphyPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Where the Indus is Young
Author: Dervla MurphyPublisher: Eland Publishing
ISBN: 9781906011666
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
One winter, Dervla Murphy and her six-year-old daughter explored 'Little Tibet' high up in the Karakoram Mountains in the frozen heart of the Western Himalayas. Dervla records their adventures, from crumbling tracks over bottomless chasms, to assaults by lascivious Kashmiris.
Author: Dervla Murphy
Author: Dervla Murphy
Author: Jane Shuter
Author: Gurnam Singh Sidhu BrardEmpires of the Indus: The Story of a River
Author: Alice AlbiniaPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393063226
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
“Alice Albinia is the most extraordinary traveler of her generation. . . . A journey of astonishing confidence and courage.”—Rory Stewart One of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains and flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. It has been worshipped as a god, used as a tool of imperial expansion, and today is the cement of Pakistan’s fractious union. Alice Albinia follows the river upstream, through two thousand miles of geography and back to a time five thousand years ago when a string of sophisticated cities grew on its banks. “This turbulent history, entwined with a superlative travel narrative” (The Guardian) leads us from the ruins of elaborate metropolises, to the bitter divisions of today. Like Rory Stewart’s The Places In Between, Empires of the Indus is an engrossing personal journey and a deeply moving portrait of a river and its people.
Author: Dervla MurphyYounghusband
Author: Patrick FrenchPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101973358
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 585
Book Description
Soldier, explorer, mystic, guru, and spy, Francis Younghusband began his colonial career as a military adventurer and became a radical visionary who preached free love to his followers. Patrick French’s award-winning biography traces the unpredictable life of the maverick with the “damned rum name,” who single-handedly led the 190 British invasion of Tibet, discovered a new route from China to India, organized the first expeditions up Mount Everest and attempted to start a new world religion. Following in Younghusband’s footsteps, from Calcutta to the snows of the Himalayas, French pieces together the story of a man who embodies all the romance and folly of Britain’s lost imperial dream.
Author: Eileen Kernaghan