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Mustang (Nepal) --- Mustang (Nepal) --- Description and travel --- Descriptions et voyages
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Mustang (Nepal) --- Mustang (Nepal) --- Description and travel --- Descriptions et voyages
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ASE Eastern & Central Asia --- flora --- Nepal --- Mustang
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Speeches, addresses, etc., Tibetan --- Buddhism --- Mustang (Nepal)
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"In its heyday (1400-1600), The Kingdom of Lo dominated the Kali Gandaki River trade between India and Tibet. By the 18th century Lo had lost control over this trade and had been incorporated into the modern Kingdom of Nepal. Isolated deep in the Himalaya, Lo's heriditary rajas retained most of their feudal powers and the area remained closed to the outside world until 1991. In the spring of 1992, author Peter Matthiessen and correspondent-photographer Thomas Laird traveled deep in the secret valley of Sao Kohla, tucked high in the northernmost reaches of the Himalaya. They were the first Westerners to venture there in thirty years." "Matthiessen's expansive narrative and Laird's poignant photographs reveal a place where mountains five miles high cast their shadows over the deepest canyon in the world; where 150-million-year-old fossils rise to the light of day at 13,000 feet; and where mountain nomads spend their lives herding their flocks across desolate slopes and through desert valleys, "utterly lost in the eternal earth and air"."
Matthiessen, Peter --- Laird, Thomas, --- Travel --- Travel --- Mustang (Nepal : District) --- Description and travel
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Barrier islands --- Geology, Stratigraphic --- From 2 million years ago --- Mustang Island (Nueces County, Tex.) --- Texas
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On an epic 3,000-mile journey through the most pristine backcountry of the American West, four friends rode horseback across an almost contiguous stretch of unspoiled public lands, border to border, from Mexico to Canada. For their trail horses, they adopted wild mustangs from the US Bureau of Land Management that were perfectly adapted to the rocky terrain and harsh conditions of desert and mountain travel. A meticulously planned but sometimes unpredictable route brought them face to face with snowpack, downpours, and wildfire; unrelenting heat, raging rivers, and sheer cliffs; jumping cactus
Wildlife cinematography. --- Mustang. --- Western riding --- Adventure travel --- Riding, Western --- Western horsemanship --- Horsemanship --- Travel --- Mustang --- Horse breeds --- Cinematography, Wildlife --- Nature cinematography --- Wildlife photography --- Masters, Ben, --- Masters, Benjamin Cody, --- West (U.S.) --- Description and travel. --- Description and travel
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Barrier islands --- Geology, Stratigraphic --- Barrier islands. --- Geology, Stratigraphic. --- Quaternary Geologic Period. --- From 2 million years ago --- Mustang Island (Nueces County, Tex.) --- Texas
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