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After crossing the Yarkhun via a bridge where the river lunges over a fall , we ascended to Baroghil village where some twelve families of Wakhi tribesmen live in stone huts . Originally they grazed their yaks and goats on these ...
After crossing the Yarkhun via a bridge where the river lunges over a fall , we ascended to Baroghil village where some twelve families of Wakhi tribesmen live in stone huts . Originally they grazed their yaks and goats on these ...
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live in fairly cohesive herds most individuals know each other and remember the outcome of any previous encounters ; a male need not waste time in testing another whose fighting potential is known to him . But urial live in a highly ...
live in fairly cohesive herds most individuals know each other and remember the outcome of any previous encounters ; a male need not waste time in testing another whose fighting potential is known to him . But urial live in a highly ...
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True , in Nepal the villager himself is often an important agent in his own destruc- tion , for he circumvents laws that prohibit the cutting of live trees by ringbarking them . A tree thus slashed soon dies and may then be legally ...
True , in Nepal the villager himself is often an important agent in his own destruc- tion , for he circumvents laws that prohibit the cutting of live trees by ringbarking them . A tree thus slashed soon dies and may then be legally ...
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User Review - Stbalbach - LibraryThingI'd never heard of Schaller before but wanted to read it because it concern the same 1970s trip Peter Matthiessen was on when he wrote The Snow Leopard. Apparently Schaller was at the time considered ... Read full review
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| Title | Stones of Silence: Journeys in the Himalaya |
| Author | George B. Schaller |
| Photographs by | George B. Schaller |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Hutchinson (Australia), 1980 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 4 Aug 2009 |
| ISBN | 0233972153, 9780233972152 |
| Length | 292 pages |
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