ISBN:
9789004462526
,
900446252X
Language:
English
Pages:
393 Seiten
Series Statement:
Brill's Tibetan studies library vol.50
Series Statement:
Brill's Tibetan studies library
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Farmer, Michael Atlas of the tibetan plateau
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Farmer, Michael An atlas of the Tibetan Plateau
DDC:
912.51/5
Keywords:
Historical geography
;
Atlases
;
History
;
Maps
;
Remote-sensing images
;
Remote-sensing images
;
Atlases
;
Tibet Autonomous Region (China) Maps
;
Tibet Autonomous Region (China) Maps Historical geography
;
Tibet Autonomous Region (China) Maps History
;
China ; Tibet Autonomous Region
;
Atlas
;
Atlas
;
Atlas
;
Hochland von Tibet
;
Atlas
Abstract:
"The Atlas shows for the first time the contemporary geography of the entire Tibetan Plateau, an area where major powers (China, India and Pakistan) meet in the highest landscape on earth, originally inhabited by the unique, ancient Buddhis civilization of Tibet. Using extensive satellite imagery, the author has accurately positioned over two thousand religious locations, more than a third of which appear not to have not been previously recorded. Nearly two thousand settlements have also been accurately located and all locations are named in both Tibetan and Chinese where possible. This ancient landscape is shown in contrast to the massive physical infrastructure which has been recently imposed on it as an attempt to "Open up the West" and carry forward the Chinese "Belt and Road Initiative". With 120 maps in full colour"--
Note:
Includes index
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