by Hugh Thomson · Phoenix · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780753818473
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«Nanda Devi: A Journey to the Last Sanctuary» is a travel and mountaineering account by Hugh Thomson, published by Phoenix in paperback (232 pages, in English).
The book recounts the 2000 expedition that reopened the Nanda Devi sanctuary, a ring of Himalayan peaks almost impenetrable since Eric Shipton and Bill Tilman forced their way in in 1934. Hugh Thomson interweaves his own experience with the history of the early explorers and with the mythology and political disputes surrounding the mountain.
The work was nominated for the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature in 2004. The original edition was published in 2004, and this Phoenix edition dates from 2005.
For readers of travel literature and mountaineering chronicles interested in the Himalayas and historical expeditions.
Hugh Thomson is a British travel writer, filmmaker and explorer. His The Green Road into the Trees: A Walk Through England won the 2014 Wainwright Prize for nature and travel writing.
