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When Men and Mountains meet
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http://hillagricrepository.co.in/1181/
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When Men and Mountains meet
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Keay, John
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915 Geography of and Travel in Asia
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| Description |
Arab geographers of the Middle Ages, though they knew more than most about the configuration of the world, entertained some rather fanciful notions. One of these was to regard the Eurasian landmass as a desirable woman clothed in nothing but a long chain girdle about her ample waist. The girdle was of mountains studded with snowy peaks. It stretched from the Pyrenees through the Alps, Balkans, Caucasus and Elburz to the limits of the known world in the Hindu Kush and Himalayas.This idea of an east-west mountain range encircling the earth was not new; the geographers of Greece and Rome had also subscribed to it.
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John Murray
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1977
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Book
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text
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en
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http://hillagricrepository.co.in/1181/1/61317.pdf
Keay, John (1977) When Men and Mountains meet. John Murray, London. |
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