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A Mountain in Tibet

A Mountain in Tibet The Search for Mount Kailas and the Sources of the Great Rivers of India

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From 1808 to 1908 a succession of explorers and adventurers set out into the Himalayas and Tibet to discover the sources of the four great rivers of the Indian sub-continent: the Indus, Sutlej, Ganga and Brahmaputra. This is an account of that "last great adventure".

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Book information

ISBN: 9780708823514
Publisher: Little, Brown
Imprint: Sphere
Pub date:
DEWEY: 915.1504
DEWEY edition: 19
Number of pages: 254
Weight: 234g
Height: 180mm
Width: 120mm

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