Item #64213 Where the Gods Are Mountains. Three Years Among the People of the Himalayas. Himalayas, René De NEBESKY-WOJKOWITZ.
Where the Gods Are Mountains. Three Years Among the People of the Himalayas.

Where the Gods Are Mountains. Three Years Among the People of the Himalayas.

New York: Reynal & Company, 1957. First US Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 256pp. Original green cloth with red lettering to spine and upper board. Maps, b&w photos and illustrations. The first American edition of the author's account of three years in the Himalayas during very turbulent times that witnessed amongst other things the Chinese annexation of Tibet. Rene de Nebesky-Wojkowitz's was a brilliant Austrian anthropologist, who is most widely remember for his seminal study of Tibetan Protective Deities, "Oracles and Demons of Tibet." Cloth a bit discoloured and darkened at edges and gutters, page lightly tanned with pale flecking to edges and endpapers. Otherwise bright and clean. Thus overall a tight & unmarked better than VG copy in Good + dust jacket (Dust jacket a bit chafed at edges, folds, & spine ends, half inch chip to upper front panel, tape repair to upper rear spine. Dust jacket now protected by a removeable mylar sleeve.). Item #64213

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