A Mountain In Tibet
The Search for Mount Kailas and the Sources of the Great Rivers of Asia
$39.08
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
25 February 2013
Summary
Throughout the East there runs a legend of a great mountain at the centre of the world, where four rivers have their source. Charles Allen traces this legend to Western Tibet where there stands Kailas, worshipped by Hindus and Buddhists alike as the home of their gods and the navel of the world. Close by are the sources of four mighty rivers: the sacred Ganges, the Indus, the Sutlej and Tsangpo-Brahmaputra.
For centuries Kailas remained an enigma to the outside world. Then a successio…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349139388 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0349139385 |
| Author: | Charles Allen |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 25 February 2013 |
| Weight: | 240g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 22mm |
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For 30 years Allen has been quietly plugging away at the unfashionable field of colonial history, producing a whole shelf-full of well-researched, well-written and eminently readable works of narrative history, illuminating a whole succession of previously unwritten corners of British Indian history
About The Author
Charles Allen
Charles Allen is the author of a number of bestselling books about India and the colonial experience elsewhere. A traveller, historian and master storyteller, he is one of the great chroniclers of India.
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