Stones of Silence: Journeys in the HimalayaSchaller's tale of his Himalyan treks (1969-1975) to assess the effect of humans on the habitat of wild sheep and goats. He describes, also, a less known area--the Nilgiri Hills at the tip of the subcontinent. No bibliography. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
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Page 58
... juniper fire for warmth , and there several local men joined us to offer their services as porters . The porters came promptly at 5:30 A.M .; there was no haggling about price , no complaining about the size of the loads . Cheerfully ...
... juniper fire for warmth , and there several local men joined us to offer their services as porters . The porters came promptly at 5:30 A.M .; there was no haggling about price , no complaining about the size of the loads . Cheerfully ...
Page 88
... juniper fire , conversation roamed over many topics of local concern . Here , as elsewhere , taxation worried the populace . Since Hunza had just been reduced from a princely state to a district , the mir could no longer collect his ...
... juniper fire , conversation roamed over many topics of local concern . Here , as elsewhere , taxation worried the populace . Since Hunza had just been reduced from a princely state to a district , the mir could no longer collect his ...
Page 247
... juniper boughs for the evening's fire along the way . Jang - bu discovers that Namu has misled us about the lama ... junipers like giant molds on the earth's crust . The opposite slope is JOURNEY TO CRYSTAL MOUNTAIN ยท 247.
... juniper boughs for the evening's fire along the way . Jang - bu discovers that Namu has misled us about the lama ... junipers like giant molds on the earth's crust . The opposite slope is JOURNEY TO CRYSTAL MOUNTAIN ยท 247.
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Path to the Mountains | 1 |
Mountains in the Desert | 115 |
Cloud Goats | 150 |
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