- Published: 4 May 2021
- ISBN: 9781529103120
- Imprint: Ebury Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 432
- RRP: $19.99
Escape to Riverside Cottage
- Published: 4 May 2021
- ISBN: 9781529103120
- Imprint: Ebury Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 432
- RRP: $19.99
Magnificent ... a far-reaching, compendious and elegantly turned examination of a region and its peoples, this book is unlikely to be surpassed
Telegraph
A panoramic history of the region ... Such a complex range of subjects is not easy to press into a coherent narrative ... Douglas ... does so with extraordinary aplomb ... rigorous and informative ... highly readable ... never lacking freshness and rich in compelling detail
Literary Review
A magisterial account of the complex human history of the greatest mountains on Earth ... fascinating ... scrupulously and movingly detail[ed] ... Douglas weaves a far richer tapestry, showing how this is a sacred landscape influenced by very worldly concerns
The Times
A scholarly yet entertaining synthesis of hundreds of years of history ... [Douglas] portrays not only nuns and monks but also courtesans, mountaineers, kings, horse-traders, tea merchants, spies, architects, botanists, soldiers and politicians from Nepal, Bhutan, Tibet, Sikkim, China and India - as well as from Britain, the British Raj, American, Russia and continental Europe ... a labour of love twenty-five years in the making
Financial Times
In the suitably immense Himalaya, Ed Douglas logs the achievements and travails from Paleolithic times to the present day of the peoples who have laboured in and around Asia's mountain spine ... enlivening Himalaya's history with a host of minor characters ... Such unsung endeavours are a delight ... The research is impressive ... always authoritative ... Anyone with a serious interest in the Himalayan region will want to buy it and will find it invaluable
Times Literary Supplement
His observations are sharp, and in many passages, his writing glows
New York Review of Books
A fascinating account that portrays the [Himalaya] range as a crossroads rather than a human desert
Laura Spinney, New Scientist