Chomolungma Sings the Blues: Travels Round EverestConstable, 1997 - 226 pages Combining travel writing with an insight of the social and environmental problems caused by climbers, Douglas examines a region that is struggling to develop and change. It is the story of resourceful and cultured people finding a balance between the new and the old, who rely on the work Everest provides. |
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Page 41
... streets and call softly from the shadows . Tourists look down from the roof terrace bars , greet each other with hugs ... street children , serving tea , selling souvenirs , organising air tickets and getting paid for doing so . It also ...
... streets and call softly from the shadows . Tourists look down from the roof terrace bars , greet each other with hugs ... street children , serving tea , selling souvenirs , organising air tickets and getting paid for doing so . It also ...
Page 42
... street to watch in amazement as the earnest faces of the marchers swept by , a short , moustachioed figure at their ... streets , staring ahead and shouting slogans . The faces that watched them pass were now all brown , and the souvenir ...
... street to watch in amazement as the earnest faces of the marchers swept by , a short , moustachioed figure at their ... streets , staring ahead and shouting slogans . The faces that watched them pass were now all brown , and the souvenir ...
Page 95
... street , two men were playing dice , smacking the tumbler down on a round leather pallet before an engrossed crowd ... streets . Sherpas are better off than the Rai and other tribes who fill the streets on Saturdays during the weekly ...
... street , two men were playing dice , smacking the tumbler down on a round leather pallet before an engrossed crowd ... streets . Sherpas are better off than the Rai and other tribes who fill the streets on Saturdays during the weekly ...
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Gloria in excelsis | 3 |
Tripping with Kafka and the tsampaeaters II | 11 |
All Englishmen cannot be gentlemen | 37 |
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