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Pamir,
Forgotten on the roof of the world
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La Martiniere editions recently published a
marvelous book . Photographer Matthieu Paley and his wife Mareile Paley
accompanied by anthropologist Ted Callahan take us on their enthusiastic
story for over 10 years on this little end of the world: the little
Pamir.
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"Chronik
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"Chronik DER erschliebung of Karakorum " is the first volume of an incredible historical and geographical books about Karakoram range. This book chronologically tell the great exploration dates of the Western part of the range since the first explorations in the 19th century until the 20th. This first volume describe one of the most mysterious parts of the range (Batura, Yashkuk, Purian Sar, Kampir Dior, Koz Sar, Lupghar, Passu and Naltar groups) because of the rare expeditions.Wolfgang Hechel is the author of these 342 pages of texts illustrated by 17 maps (drawn by Jerzy Wala), 142 Abbildungen and 20 Skizzen. This book presents already the result of an incredible work. Wolfgang continues to write the continuation of this work, areas after area dates after dates, expeditions after expeditions, a work maybe complete in 2008 !.Next parts of the chronicle:
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"Chronik DER erschliebung of Karakorum " is the result of what Blankonthemap dreamed to illustrate at its beginnings : The exhaustive chronicle of the climb history in Karakoram range. Wolfgang Heichel achievde this gigantic project, at least for the Western part of the range. To know: this book written in German is not translated yet in English language but the charts and the photographs are very rare values. Lucky German-speaking or polyglot devils will regale themself of a very rich texte about the history of this mountainous area, the most fabulous of the world !Book value : 27 Euros (inclusive postal costs) To get the book, write to Wolfgang Heichel :Wolfgang Heichel
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"Shimshal"
Pam Henson is living in New Zealand, she's writing book reviews and feature articles about travel for newspapers, she's professional writer. Passionate about the Northern areas, it has just completed a very beautiful book on Shimshal. She entrusts her project to us in a little interview :I'm a very active member of the New Zealand Green Party, which has had some members in parliament for the last ten years. I'm 57 now, and my main physical activity is trekking. I love mountains, trekking, and for 15 years I was an enthusiastic English potholer, including one visit to Pierre St. Martin in the Pyrenees.To be honest, I only made one small horizontal trip in there, and it was a long time ago. I was potholing in various countries such as Papua New Guinea and Bulgaria before I moved to New Zealand from England.This book has two aims : one is to promote knowledge about Pakistan and to encourage a more sympathetic attitude to the country. The other is to raise money for our Trust, the Shimshal Trust, which provides money for scholarships for Shimshali to go to university, or teacher training. The village has a subsistence farming culture, although that is changing, and it is hard for them to get the money to pay for education and training.It's important for me to see more equal distribution of resources amongst the world's countries. For that to happen there has to be more understanding. Most people in Pakistan are great-hearted and welcoming, despite the lack of resources. Our little trust tries to set an example in a very small way of understanding and sharing resources.The book has 216 pages including 8 pages of colour photographs.It costs $25US plus $5 US postage and packing.
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The book can be ordered from the website
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