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White mountain : real and imagined journeys in the Himalayas / Robert Twigger.

by Twigger, Robert, 1964-

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Weidenfeld & Nicolson, an imprint of Orion Publishing Group, 2016.

Twigger, Robert, 1964- -- Travel -- Himalaya Mountains.

Himalaya Mountains -- Description and travel.

Himalaya Mountains -- History.

9781474604369 (pbk.)

9780297608714 (hc.)

458 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"The Himalayas beckon and we go. Some to make real journeys and others to make imaginary ones. These mountains, home to Buddhists, Bonpos, Jains, Muslims, Hindus, shamans and animists, to name only a few, are a place of pilgrimage and dreams, revelation and war, massacre and invasion, but also peace and unutterable calm. In an exploration of the region's seismic history, Robert Twigger unravels some of these real and invented journeys and the unexpected links between them. Following a meandering path across the Himalayas to its physical end in Nagaland on the Indian-Burmese border, Twigger encounters incredible stories from a unique cast of mountaineers and mystics, pundits and prophets. The result is a sweeping, enthralling and surprising journey through the history of the world's greatest mountain range. Robert Twigger is a British author, poet and adventurer. He led the first expedition to cross the Great Sand Sea of the Egyptian Sahara solely on foot, and another that was the first to cross Western Canada in a birchbark canoe since 1793. Visit his website at roberttwigger.com"--Provided by publisher.

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