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IN THE LAND OF MUSTANG |
| Product #:
HM-454 |
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This book tells a lot about Lo Monthang a rural place in Nepal. |
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61.22 |
| Weight |
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1400 gms |
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Product Info |
Hard Cover 192 Pages
Publisher: Timeless Books New Delhi
Author: Peter Mathiessen and Photographs by Thomas Laird.
Book Description
In its heyday (1400 – 1600), The kingdom of Lo dominated the Kali Gandaki River trade between India and Tibet. By the 18th century Lo had lost control over this trade and had been incorporated into the modern Kingdom of Nepal. Isolated deep in the Himalaya, Lo’s hereditary rajas retained most of their feudal powers and the area remained closed to the outside world until 1991. In the spring of 1992, author Peter Matthiessen and correspondent-photographer Thomas Laird traveled deep in the secret valley of Sao Kohla, tucked high in the northernmost reaches of the Himalaya. They were the first Westemers to venture thee in thirty years.
From the central city of Lo Monthang, known as “Mustang.” Matthiessen and Laird, along with their entourage of government chaperones, attendants, and horsemen, began a horseback adventure across arid plateaus and through narrow river chasms to reach precariously erched monasteries long since abandoned to the rose finch and black redstart. They camped among nomad herdsmen who spent nights worrying about the threat posed to their goats by the deadly snow leopards.
They also listened to the Locals’ descriptions of the mehti, known to Westemers as the Abominable Snowman. On an afternoon both men described as disquieting and exhilarating, they followed a trail of not-quite-human footprints across a shady stretch of sand.
Matthiessen’s expansive narrative and Laird’s poignant photographs reveal a place where mountains five miles high cast their shadows over the deepest canyon in the world; where 150-million-year-old fossils rise to the light of day at 13,000 feet; and where mountain nomads spend their lives herding their flocks across desolate slopes and through desert valleys, “utterly lost in the eternal earth and air”.
Pages: This book has Hard Cover and 192 pages.
Written: This book is written by Peter Mathiessen and Photographs by Thomas Laird.
weight: This book weighs 1400 gm (approx).
Availability: This book is normally shipped within the next business days through DHL.
We also have wholesale option if you want this product in bulk. Please refer our "Wholesale Buyers" or “Order By Demand” section for detail or call us at 977-1-5547819 or Fax us at 977-1-5545657 or mail us at info@himalayanmart.com |
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