The first major history of the Himalaya - an epic story of peoples, cultures and the world's highest mountains
Ed Douglas is an award-winning writer who has reported from the Himalaya for over twenty-five years, covering the Maoist insurgency in Nepal and the Tibetan occupation. The author of a dozen books, including a biography of Tenzing Norgay, he is also a climber with first ascents in the Himalaya, and edits the Alpine Journal. He lives in Sheffield.
Magnificent ... a far-reaching, compendious and elegantly turned
examination of a region and its peoples, this book is unlikely to
be surpassed
*Telegraph*
A magisterial account of the complex human history of the greatest
mountains on Earth ... fascinating ... scrupulously and movingly
detail[ed] ... Douglas weaves a far richer tapestry, showing how
this is a sacred landscape influenced by very worldly concerns
*The Times*
A panoramic history of the region ... Such a complex range of
subjects is not easy to press into a coherent narrative ... Douglas
... does so with extraordinary aplomb ... rigorous and informative
... highly readable ... never lacking freshness and rich in
compelling detail
*Literary Review*
A scholarly yet entertaining synthesis of hundreds of years of
history ... [Douglas] portrays not only nuns and monks but also
courtesans, mountaineers, kings, horse-traders, tea merchants,
spies, architects, botanists, soldiers and politicians from Nepal,
Bhutan, Tibet, Sikkim, China and India - as well as from Britain,
the British Raj, American, Russia and continental Europe ... a
labour of love twenty-five years in the making
*Financial Times*
In the suitably immense Himalaya, Ed Douglas logs the achievements
and travails from Paleolithic times to the present day of the
peoples who have laboured in and around Asia's mountain spine ...
enlivening Himalaya's history with a host of minor characters ...
Such unsung endeavours are a delight ... The research is impressive
... always authoritative ... Anyone with a serious interest in the
Himalayan region will want to buy it and will find it
invaluable
*Times Literary Supplement*
His observations are sharp, and in many passages, his writing
glows.
*New York Review of Books*
An immensely entertaining read ... both a soaring celebration and a
sacramental offering to the highest mountain range in the world,
everything you ever wanted to know about the Himalaya is found
between the covers of this magnificent, ambitious and panoramic
book
*Nepali Times*
Featuring scholars and tyrants, bandits and CIA agents, go-betweens
and revolutionaries, Himalaya is a panoramic, character-driven
history on the grandest but also the most human scale
*Asian Art Newspaper, *Books of the Year**
[An] authoritative text... Anyone with a serious interest in the
Himalayan region will want to buy it and will find it
invaluable
*Times Literary Supplement*
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