'Magnificent ... this book is unlikely to be surpassed' Telegraph This is the first major
history of the Himalaya: an epic story of peoples cultures and adventures among the world's
highest mountains. SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 DUFF COOPER PRIZE An epic story of peoples
cultures and adventures among the world's highest mountains: here Jesuit missionaries exchanged
technologies with Tibetan Lamas Mongol Khans employed Nepali craftsmen Armenian merchants
exchanged musk and gold with Mughals. Featuring scholars and tyrants bandits and CIA agents
go-betweens and revolutionaries Himalaya is a panoramic character-driven history on the
grandest but also the most human scale by far the most comprehensive yet written encompassing
geology and genetics botany and art and bursting with stories of courage and resourcefulness.
'Magisterial' The Times 'His observations are sharp...his writing glows' New York Review of
Books SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 BOARDMAN TASKER AWARD FOR MOUNTAIN LITERATURE
