Fifty-two years after the pink-headed duck was last seen in the wild, Rory Nugent set off for India in search of this exceptionally rare bird. In Calcutta he prowled the fowl market, where a few of the ducks used to appear during the Raj. Traveling on to Delhi, he was befriended by a Cambridge-educated smuggler, and he learned of remote regions to the north where the duck might be found. In Sikkim, following the trail of a Yeti, he became lost in the Valley of Bliss and nearly imprisoned inside a forest of rhododendrons, each the size of a ranch house. Making his way to Assam, he bought a 13-foot skiff and paddled the Brahmaputra River from Burma to Bangladesh, with stops on an island, considered to be Kali's left breast, and at a Tantrist temple, where he stumbled on a grisly ritual in a graveyard. In a secluded marsh along the river he may have spotted the world's rarest duck.
Автор: Kirkby Bruce Название: Blue Sky Kingdom: An Epic Journey to the Heart of the Himalayas ISBN: 1643135686 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781643135687 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 25700.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: A warm and unforgettable portrait of a family letting go of the known world to encounter an unfamiliar one filled with rich possibilities and new understandings.
Автор: Mandava Madhuri Название: A Kriya Yogi`s Kundalini Awakening in the Himalayas: A Boundary-Breaking Journey to Self-Realization Graced by Mahavatar Babaji ISBN: 1794751416 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781794751415 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 29330.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A ""Kriya Yogi's Kundalini Awakening in the Himalayas"" offers readers a deep trek not only to the Himalayas but to an extraordinary woman's spiritual awakening. Her initial aspiration to learn mountaineering had turned into a spiritual quest to attain enlightenment. She began reading books on quantum physics and metaphysics, and found no answers, before eventually stumbling upon Autobiography of a Yogi, by Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952), where she learned that the path of Kriya Yoga had been given to humanity to realize our immortality through self-realization and the evolution of consciousness and got initiated into this science by Baba Paramahamsa Hariharananda Giri, a direct disciple of Sri Yukteshwar and a peer to Yogananda. She experienced her final Awakening. where she became ONE with the Universe at the cave of Mahavatar Babaji that Yogananda cites in his book. She took the treacherous Siddhartha Road to Awakening that spanned over 25 years of her various spiritual practices
Автор: Baby Professor Название: Mountain Ranges of the World: Andes, Rockies, Himalayas, Atlas, Alps Introduction to Geography Grade 4 Children`s Science & Nature Books ISBN: 1541980166 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781541980167 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 30340.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Climb the different mountain ranges of the world without leaving your seat Go to the Andes, the Rockies, the Himalayas, the Atlas and the Alps. Find out where they're located and gather information on the plants and animals that survive there. If there are people living within close proximity of these mountain ranges, what was life like for them? Grab a copy and start exploring today
Автор: Waddell Название: Among the Himalayas ISBN: 1108081630 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108081634 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 38010.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Laurence Austine Waddell (1854-1938) spent twenty-five years as a medical officer in the colonial Indian Medical Service. This 1899 publication presents his colourful account of jungles, snakes, glaciers, yaks, dizzying mountain ridges, rickety bamboo bridges, tribal peoples and unfamiliar food. Illustrated throughout, it anticipates the trekking industry of today.
Название: Democratisation in the himalayas ISBN: 1138244287 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138244283 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 163330.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Democratisation is a formidable task in the Himalayan region owing to its immense cultural heterogeneity. The process of democratisation has accentuated ethnic competition, assertion of identity, and demand for ethnic homelands to protect, safeguard, and promote political and development interests of various groups.
This volume discusses competing interests; identity politics that permeates political formations, the transformations in the traditional forms of governance and their adaption to democratic institutions; the genesis and periodic eruptions of ethnic assertions, and attempts to resolve ethnic conflict. It shows how recent efforts at deepening democratic values and implementing social justice have been resisted and contested. The book argues that the play of ethnicity, the creation of political parties and interest groups, the emergence of social movements, and the voice of protest and opposition do not indicate a crisis in democracy but comprise the instruments by which the state is pushed towards reform, welfare, and inclusive politics, and is obliged to listen to the people.
Rich in ethnographic research, this volume will be useful to scholars and researchers of social and political anthropology, political studies, South Asian studies, Nepal and Himalayan studies, sociology, and development studies.
Автор: Govindrajan Radhika Название: Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India`s Central Himalayas ISBN: 022655998X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226559988 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 25350.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A look at the range of close relationships between humans and wild and domesticated animals in the Himalayas.
Автор: Ali Название: Cold War in the High Himalayas ISBN: 1138878898 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138878891 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 38780.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This text examines elite-insecurity perceptions in India, Pakistan and the USA in the 1950s.
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