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Under the Himalayan sky : establishing Sagarmatha National Park - a New Zealand family's experience

Title

Under the Himalayan sky : establishing Sagarmatha National Park - a New Zealand family's experience / by Margaret Jefferies.

Author

Jefferies, Margaret

Publication

Kathmadu, Nepal : Vajra Books, [2016]
©2016

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Description

xii, 303 pages : illustrations (some colour); 24 cm

Summary

"In the 1970s, the Nepalese government established an agreement with New Zealand for help in setting up a national park in the Mt Everest region of the Himalayas. Bruce Jefferies, an Assistant Supervising Ranger with New Zealand's National Park Service, took off for Nepal with his wife Margaret, and three young children. They had little idea of what to expect in this remote, high-altitude environment. Under the Himalayan Sky is Margaret's memoir of the time the family spent in Khumbu (Mt Everest), with no running water or electricity, largely cut off from the outside world, living on the traditional local diet of potatoes and tea. In spite of what might be perceived as hardships, the family embraced life amongst the colourful and hospitable Sherpa people. Margaret's story paints a fascinating portrait of this region of Nepal in the early days before large scale tourism and trekking opened it up to the outside world."--Amazon.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Biographies.
History.

Note

New Zealand author.

ISBN

9789937623650
9937623650

LCCN

2016334353

OCLC

ocn975287356
SCSB-9055652

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library