10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «KINCHINJUNGA»
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Kinchinjunga in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Impossible Picturesqueness: Edward Lear's Indian Watercolors
THE EASTERN HIMALAYAS Kinchinjunga at sunrise is a glory not to be forgotten
; Kinchinjunga PM is apt to become a wonderful hash of Turneresque colour and
mist and space, but with little claim to forming a picture of grand effect.
Vidya Dehejia, Edward Lear, Allen Staley, 2013
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Himalayan Journals Or Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the ...
1848. VIEW FROM TONOLO. 185 being respectively eighty and ninety miles off,
they raised their gigantic heads above, seeming what they really were, by far the
loftiest peaks next to Kinchinjunga ; and the perspective of snow is so deceptive,
...
Joseph Dalton Hooker, 1854
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Knowing Global Environments: New Historical Perspectives on ...
Kinchinjunga (forty five miles distant) is the prominent object, rising 21,000 above
the level of the observer out of a sea of intervening wooded hills.”41
Kinchinjunga, which Hooker thought was the highest mountain in the world, is
actually the ...
Among his paintingsI although the set pieces are astonishing, and the
Kinchinjunga above all,1 in its very different, unexpected way, the crowded shore
at Benares, and the blue and tawny Mahee, which is a view of mountains over
swampy ...
1848. VIEW FROM TONGLO. 185 being respectively eighty and ninety miles off,
they raised their gigantic heads above, seeming what they really were, by far the
loftiest peaks next to Kinchinjunga ; and the perspective of snow is so deceptive,
...
Joseph Dalton Hooker, 2003
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Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa Sikkim
On the west of Sikkim, in the neighbourhood of Kinchinjunga, are Kabru (24,015
feet) and Pandim (22,020 feet); the name of the latter means “the king's minister”
and has been given to this peak because it stands at the side of Kinchinjunga, ...
Though both weremuch more distant thanthesnowy ranges, being
respectivelyeightyand ninety milesoff, theyraised their gigantic heads above,
seeming what theyreally were, byfar the loftiest peaks next to Kinchinjunga; and
the perspective ...
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Bengal District Gazetteer : Darjeeling
In the background is a continuous barrier of snowy mountains, the most
prominent of which i9 Kinchinjunga towering up in gigantic height and breadth,
with its attendant peaks, Kabrr. Jano and Pandim, clustering closely round it-.
Mount Kabru ...
This was Kinchinjunga in one of its aspects. At another tirrje, when all was clear
of cloud, I would look steeply down from the tropical forests of Darjiling for 6,000
feet to the bottom of the narrow valley beneath, and then up and up through tier ...
Francis Edward Younghusband, Francis Younghusband, Sir, 1993
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Alexander Von Humboldt's Translantic Personae
The notable colossus Kinchinjunga is shown on the title engraving of the
magnificent work by Joseph Hooker, The Rhododendrons of SikkimHimalaya,
1849. This mountain is 379 toises higher than Jawahir, and it has been
measured with ...
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «KINCHINJUNGA»
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Kinchinjunga is used in the context of the following news items.
Passion for British landscape blossoms at The Frick
... the arresting Shangri-La-like “Kinchinjunga From Darjeeling” (1877) by Edward Lear, known to Americans for his nonsense verse; Austrian ... «Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 15»
Tiger Hunting in India 1924
The tremendous mountain masses radiating out from Kinchinjunga, 28,000 feet in height, as a center, with more than ten peaks of over 22,000 ... «National Geographic, Aug 14»
Happy Birthday Edward Lear: 200 Years Of Nature And Nonsense …
From Beachy Head to Kinchinjunga to the Coast of Coromandel, haunted by the lovesick Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo, Lear's strange, entrancing vision ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Oct 12»
