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- catalog abstract ""Although seemingly timeless, the Himalaya are anything but unchanging. The mountains themselves continue to grow an average of one centimeter per year, with some peaks rising ten centimeters in a single year. More alarming are the profound environmental and cultural changes occurring throughout the region. In Himalaya: Life on the Edge of the World, David Zurick and P.P. Karan explore these dynamic changes through geological records, scientific reports, and official documents dating back over a century and through years of field research and travel which have given them an intimate knowledge of the landscape and people of the Himalaya. The authors provide a comprehensive natural history of the region from the birth of the Himalaya out of the tectonic disruptions beneath the primordial Tethys Sea to the variety of landforms, habitats, and climates seen today: a lively study of the peoples who make the mountains their home, tracing human history in the Himalaya back more than a thousand years; and an in-depth analysis of the relationship between nature and society in the Himalaya and the pressing problems of environmental degradation, explosive population growth, spiraling poverty, and globalization confronting the region and its people."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11369623.
- catalog contributor b11369624.
- catalog contributor b11369625.
- catalog coverage "Himalaya Mountains Region.".
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description ""Although seemingly timeless, the Himalaya are anything but unchanging. The mountains themselves continue to grow an average of one centimeter per year, with some peaks rising ten centimeters in a single year. More alarming are the profound environmental and cultural changes occurring throughout the region. In Himalaya: Life on the Edge of the World, David Zurick and P.P. Karan explore these dynamic changes through geological records, scientific reports, and official documents dating back over a century and through years of field research and travel which have given them an intimate knowledge of the landscape and people of the Himalaya. The authors provide a comprehensive natural history of the region from the birth of the Himalaya out of the tectonic disruptions beneath the primordial Tethys Sea to the variety of landforms, habitats, and climates seen today: a lively study of the peoples who make the mountains their home, tracing human history in the Himalaya back more than a thousand years; and an in-depth analysis of the relationship between nature and society in the Himalaya and the pressing problems of environmental degradation, explosive population growth, spiraling poverty, and globalization confronting the region and its people."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Mountam profiles -- Himalaya under Siege -- Mountain Contours -- The Shape of Land and Life -- Power and Territorial conquests -- Myth and Prehistorical Territory -- The Medieval Era of Mountain Princes -- The Colonial Great Game -- A Divided Geography -- A Question of Balance -- A Chain of Explanation -- Fragility and Instability -- The Weight of Life -- Poverty and Environmental Risk -- Thunder in the mountams -- The Pale of Modernity -- The Control of Nature -- A Mountain Theme Park? -- Himalaya in the Twenty-First century -- Landscapes of the Future -- Numerical Tables.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 355 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Himalaya.".
- catalog identifier "0801861683 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Himalaya.".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,".
- catalog relation "Himalaya.".
- catalog spatial "Himalaya Mountains Region.".
- catalog subject "954.96 21".
- catalog subject "DS485.H6 Z87 1999".
- catalog tableOfContents "Mountam profiles -- Himalaya under Siege -- Mountain Contours -- The Shape of Land and Life -- Power and Territorial conquests -- Myth and Prehistorical Territory -- The Medieval Era of Mountain Princes -- The Colonial Great Game -- A Divided Geography -- A Question of Balance -- A Chain of Explanation -- Fragility and Instability -- The Weight of Life -- Poverty and Environmental Risk -- Thunder in the mountams -- The Pale of Modernity -- The Control of Nature -- A Mountain Theme Park? -- Himalaya in the Twenty-First century -- Landscapes of the Future -- Numerical Tables.".
- catalog title "Himalaya : life on the edge of the world / David Zurick and P.P. Karan ; maps by Julsun Pacheco.".
- catalog type "text".