The Himalayas

Table of contents:
I A description of the Himalayan Region
An extraordinary geographical entity
The geological history of the Himalayas
The flora
The fauna
The history of men
II The Western Himalayas: from Chitral to Himachal Pradesh
The pagans of the eastern Hindu Kush
The “Suspended Territory” of Karakorum
The happy valleys of Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh
III The central Himalayas: from Kumaon to Nepal
The stairway to heaven
One of the lowest incomes in the world
Himalayan Hinduism
The Conquest of the Roof of the World
and from Ladakh to Tibet
A land of poor mountain folk
Religious and domestic architecture
Lamaism
Tibetan art
IV The eastern Himalayas: from Sikkim to Arunachal Pradesh
A garden of rhododendrons
One river shapes Sikkim
Bhutan, the kingdom of the dragon
The land of the rising sun