A Mountain In Tibet: The Search for Mount Kailas and the Sources of the Great Rivers of Asia

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Charles Allen

A Mountain In Tibet

The Search for Mount Kailas and the Sources of the Great Rivers of Asia

Charles Allen

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English

Abacus
26 February 2013

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Throughout the East there runs a legend of a great mountain at the centre of the world, where four rivers have their source. Charles Allen traces this legend to Western Tibet where there stands Kailas, worshipped by Hindus and Buddhists alike as the home of their gods and the navel of the world. Close by are the sources of four mighty rivers: the sacred Ganges, the Indus, the Sutlej and Tsangpo-Brahmaputra.

For centuries Kailas remained an enigma to the outside world. Then a succession of remarkable men took up the challenge of penetrating the hostile, frozen wastelands beyond the Western Himalayas, culminating in the great age of discovery, the final years of the Victorian era.

A Mountain in Tibet is an extraordinary story of exploration and high adventure, full of the excitement and colour expected from the author of Plain Tales from the Raj.

By: Charles Allen
Imprint: Abacus
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 1
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 240g
ISBN: 9780349139388
ISBN 10: 0349139385
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 26 February 2013
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Charles Allen is the author of a number of bestselling books about Indian and the colonial experience elsewhere. A traveller, historian and master storyteller he is one of the great chroniclers of India.

Reviews for A Mountain In Tibet: The Search for Mount Kailas and the Sources of the Great Rivers of Asia

For 30 years Allen has been quietly plugging away at the unfashionable field of colonial history, producing a whole shelf-full of well-researched, well-written and eminently readable works of narrative history, illuminating a whole succession of previously unwritten corners of British Indian history