WHEN MEN & MOUNTAINS MEET: EXPLORERS OF THE WESTERN HIMALAYAS 1820-75 Tolles Spiel
WHEN MEN AND MOUNTAINS MEET EXPLORERS OF THE WESTERN HIMALAYAS, 1820-75 JOHN KEAY JOHN MURRAY: LONDON 1977 1st edition. 22 x 14 cm. x + 277 pp + b/w photo plates + double page map. HB/DJ As a challenge for explorers the mountain wilderness between India and Inner Asia was unique; no comparable region aroused such intense interest. The Western Himalayas were seen as a barrier guarding fabled cities unvisited since Marco Polo, barring the way for the commercial opening of Central Asia and Inland China. It took half a century to penetrate this barrier - evidence enough of the appalling difficulties involved. Then, as now, these were partly man-made, for the mountains were of overriding strategic and political importance: there was too much at stake for the sort of free-for-all that happened in Africa or Australia.
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