Um den Textfluss zu erhalten, habe ich die Quellen lediglich bei den direkten Zitaten angegeben. Hier eine Übersicht über die Bücher, die für meine Arbeit sehr nützlich waren:
Ali, Tariq et al., Kashmir. The Case for Freedom. Verso, London 2011.
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Bell, Thomas, Kathmandu. Haus Publishing, London 2016.
Bolingbroke-Kent, Antonia, Land of the Dawn-Lit Mountains. A Journey Across Arunachal Pradesh – India’s Forgotten Frontier. Simon & Schuster, London 2017.
Brophy, David, Uyghur Nation. Reform and Revolution in the Russia-China Frontier. Harvard University Press, Cambridge 2016.
Clark, John, Hunza. Lost Kingdom of the Himalayas. Hutchinson & Co., London 1957.
Conefrey, Mick, Everest 1953. Der lange Weg zu seinem Gipfel. Malik, München 2013.
Cooke, Hope, Time Change. An Autobiography. Simon & Schuster, New York 1980.
Crossette, Barbara, So Close to Heaven. The Vanishing Buddhist Kingdoms of the Himalayas. Vintage Books, New York 1995.
Dalai Lama, Meine spirituelle Autobiographie. Diogenes, Zürich 2009.
Datta-Ray, Sunanda K., Smash & Grab. Annexation of Sikkim. Westland, New Delhi 2016 [1984].
David-Néel, Alexandra: Grand Tibet et Vaste Chine. Plon, Paris 1994.
Devasher, Tilak, Pakistan: At the Helm. HarperCollins, Noida 2018.
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Hilton, James, Der verlorene Horizont. Piper, München 2018.
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Kawaguchi, Ekai, Three Years in Tibet. Theosophical Publishing Society, Benares and London 1909 (Kindle-Ausgabe von 2016).
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Keay, John, The Gilgit Game. John Murray, London 1979.
Khan, Yasmin, The Great Partition. The Making of India and Pakistan. Yale University Press, New Haven and London 2017 [2007].
Koehler, Jeff, Darjeeling. The Colorful History and Precarious Fate of the World’s Most Famous Tea. Bloomsbury, New York 2015.
Koran, Der. Aus dem Arabischen von Max Henning. Çağri Yayinlari, Istanbul 2008, S. 66.
Krakauer, Jon, In eisige Höhen. Das Drama am Mount Everest. Malik, München 2000.
Kumar, Radha, Paradise at War. A Political History of Kashmir. Aleph Book Company, New Delhi 2018.
Lieven, Anatol, Pakistan. Et besværlig land. Oversatt av Christian Rugstad. Font, Oslo 2013.
Macfarlane, Robert, Berge im Kopf: Die Geschichte einer Faszination. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2021.
Mallet, Victor, River of Life, River of Death. The Ganges and India’s Future. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2017.
Matthiessen, Peter, Der Schneeleopard. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2021.
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Tree, Isabella, The Living Goddess. A Journey into the Heart of Kathmandu. Penguin Random House India, Haryana 2014.
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