Wild Himalaya · A Natural History of the Greatest Mountain Range on Earth by Alter, Stephen -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Copyright Page Dedication CONTENTS Author’s Note Prologue: Oakville I: OROGENESIS

1. Uncertain Altitudes 2. Rock Art 3. A Scholar of Stones 4. Equilibrium and Upheaval 5. The Poetics of Rock 6. The Mountains of Instead 7. Breaking Stones

II: THE THIRD POLE

8. Himalayan Warming 9. River of Milk 10. Catchments and Watersheds 11. Sacred Hydrology 12. Currents of Life 13. Ram Ganga 14. A Lost River

III: FLORA HIMALENSIS

15. Exiled by Ice 16. The Curious Quests of Plant Hunters 17. Arboreal Communities 18. Seeing the Forest for the Trees 19. Stalking the Carnivorous Sundew 20. Place of the Sacred Thunderbolt 21. In Search of the Blue Poppy

IV: WINGED MIGRANTS

22. Painted Courtesans and Chestnut Tigers 23. The Birdman of Pali Hill 24. Blood Pheasants of Kanchenjunga 25. A Convocation of Eagles 26. Oriental Avifauna

V: MOUNTAIN MAMMALS

27. Fields on the Hoof 28. A Feral Naturalist 29. Rewilding Jabarkhet 30. In Sunlight and Shadow 31. Conflicted Edens 32. Across the Deosai Plateau 33. Bestiary of a Divine Madman

VI: ANCESTRAL JOURNEYS

34. Evidence of Arrival 35. Primate Hunters 36. The Storyteller of Bomphu 37. An Ocean of Drumming 38. Chomolungma’s People

VII: AT THE EDGE OF BEYOND

39. The Pundit 40. Everest House 41. Demons of the Death Zone 42. An Alpinist’s Discontent 43. Nanda’s Daughter

VIII: IN A THOUSAND AGES OF THE GODS

44. Remembrance and Imagination 45. The House of Hours 46. Paradise Divided 47. Unspinning the Yarn 48. Blood Harvest 49. The Owlet’s Curse 50. Lost in the Wild

Acknowledgements Select Bibliography