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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... wild- life and to study it , the maps on pages 2 , 54 , 77 , and 206 showing my routes and research sites . So little was known about Himalayan wildlife that I first needed to collect basic information on the distribution and status of ...
... wild- life and to study it , the maps on pages 2 , 54 , 77 , and 206 showing my routes and research sites . So little was known about Himalayan wildlife that I first needed to collect basic information on the distribution and status of ...
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... wildlife conditions . An elderly man with short- cropped white hair , craggy face , and a hint of Mongolian blood around his eyes , he served us tea and cherries . Little wildlife , he told us , survived in the main Hunza Valley . Ladak ...
... wildlife conditions . An elderly man with short- cropped white hair , craggy face , and a hint of Mongolian blood around his eyes , he served us tea and cherries . Little wildlife , he told us , survived in the main Hunza Valley . Ladak ...
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... wildlife reserve to ensure himself and his friends good hunting . His son , the present nawab , Malik Muzaffar Khan , continues to conserve urial and gazelle with the result that more wildlife can be seen in a day's walk there than ...
... wildlife reserve to ensure himself and his friends good hunting . His son , the present nawab , Malik Muzaffar Khan , continues to conserve urial and gazelle with the result that more wildlife can be seen in a day's walk there than ...
Contents
Path to the Mountains | 1 |
Mountains in the Desert | 115 |
Cloud Goats | 150 |
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