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30.05.2025 23:52 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
It's an absolutely brilliant and fascinating book. As you could probably tell from my review, I really enjoyed reading it!
30.05.2025 23:49 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
"Border of Water and Ice is a fascinating, richly researched, and accessibly recounted history that will appeal to a wide range of scholars variously interested in empires, environments, borderlands, and area studies" Thank you @waymarks.bsky.social for the close reading!
30.05.2025 15:48 β π 7 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
12 inspiring stories about the lives of Sherpa mountaineers
There have been many books about Sherpa mountaineers over the years, but few have been written from the perspective of Sherpas themselves. One that comes close is Sherpa by Pradeep Bashyal and Ankiβ¦
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There have been many books about Sherpa mountaineers over the years, but few have been written from the perspective of Sherpas themselves βοΈπ»
One that comes close is Sherpa by Pradeep Bashyal and Ankit Babu Adhikari, which I read recently π
www.markhorrell.com/blog/2025/12...
28.05.2025 18:59 β π 6 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
There was also a recently published 'reply' to "The Outsider", written from the perspective of the unnamed Arab's brother: "The Meursault Investigation" (2015) by Kamel Daoud.
20.05.2025 01:32 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
That's right! - I cited your 'Speech of the Subaltern Transcribed' article which was really useful for me in thinking through elements of one of my chapters which might be of interest to you ... (Chapter 5). Many thanks! - Good to know Google Scholar works (sometimes, at least)!
09.05.2025 01:05 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
My paperback copy of 'Zoo Quest to Guiana' by David Attenborough (Pan, 1956), seen on a wooden table top next to a blue embroidered bookmark with red cats and red and white flowers. The green and yellow book cover is illustrated with two colour drawings of a young David Attenborough; one a head and shoulders portrait of him in a blue suit and red tie; the other of him in a beige safari suit, holding a lasso-like coil of rope, while approaching a crocodile beside a river with a lush jungle-like background. Posted today, 8 May 2025, on the occasion of Attenborough's 99th birthday.
Happy Birthday to Sir David Attenborough
08.05.2025 03:24 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Birkbeck Institutional Research Online
I've just been alerted to @waymarks.bsky.social's PhD dissertation 'Empirical adventurers: Science and imperial exploration in East Tibet, 1900-1949', which is well worth a look here: eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/55.... Lots of interesting stuff happening in the mountain history space!
06.05.2025 11:37 β π 8 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0
Thanks, Ariana - that's very kind. Hope there might be something of interest in there for you!
07.05.2025 02:02 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Many thanks, Mikko. Your post is the first notification I've had that it's been uploaded to the college library's website! - Feeling more than slightly trepidatious knowing it's finally out there making its way into the big wide world.
07.05.2025 02:00 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Yep, that World History one and the one on Archaeology were my favs! - Hopefully my old copies went on to similarly inspire/entertain someone else in the way they did me.
30.04.2025 07:01 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I remember kids fighting over the ghosts and monsters ones in our school library!
29.04.2025 23:14 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Ha, ha! - I really wish I'd kept hold of mine. I'd love to look back at them now. I had quite a few history ones and would spend hours looking at all the really intricate drawings in them, plus an excellent Science Dictionary.
29.04.2025 23:12 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
Usborne books were the best!
29.04.2025 03:43 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
That's barely enough time to properly sharpen a pencil.
28.04.2025 04:49 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I agree. I had to use the Harvard referencing system (Repeatedly, 1994) throughout my undergraduate degree (Repeatedly, 1997). I've always thought it's like being poked in the eye (Repeatedly, 1994, Poked, 1997) while reading (Repeatedly, 1994; Repeatedly, 1997). But cool, re: MA essay>> article. ππ
26.04.2025 12:52 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
The cover of Exploration Map by Map.
A section on the Mexica.
A section on the Magellan-Elcano expedition.
A section on Orellanβs journey down the Amazon.
Great to see Exploration Map by Map out in print. I had a blast writing about some epic feats of exploration & migration in Latin America, from the Mexica to Magellan.
Beautifully illustrated with specially commissioned maps, itβs on sale now: www.dk.com/uk/book/9780...
24.04.2025 11:47 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
There always used to be a blue Trabant parked in one of the back streets near the University of London's Senate House. I'm not sure if it's still there these days, but always used to make me smile whenever I saw it there.
18.04.2025 00:22 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Today's news reminds me of the first visit of women to the South Pole in 1969
14.04.2025 21:26 β π 18 π 6 π¬ 1 π 1
A view of purple and red azalea bushes with a row of red Torii gates in the background and a small pond under tall trees at Tokyoβs Nezu-jinja (a Shinto shrine).
Another view of the azaleas now coming into bloom at Nezu-jinja.
14.04.2025 09:37 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
A view of a set of stone steps leading up and away from a large red Torii (Shinto shrine gate) flanked with red and purple azalea bushes in bloom, seen at Nezu-jinja in Tokyo today: 14 April 2025.
The azaleas are starting to bloom at Tokyoβs Nezu-jinja.
14.04.2025 09:29 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
One of the traditional Japanese temple/shrine buildings connected to the Benten-do on the island in Shinobazu Pond (Ueno, Tokyo) with white cherry blossoms in full bloom under a clear blue, sunny sky.
Last of this seasonβs cherry blossoms at Uenoβs Shinobazu Pond in Tokyo today.
14.04.2025 09:20 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Cover of my book 'Empire, Tourism, and Colonial Knowledge', with an image of a tourist party at the top of the Borobudur temple complex on Java in the 1860s.
Book is happening β we've got a cover! 'Empire, Tourism, and Colonial Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka' coming later this year from Leiden University Press!
14.04.2025 08:01 β π 81 π 13 π¬ 8 π 2
Kumano: Journey of a Maverick Scholar - Japanology Plus | NHK WORLD-JAPAN
*First broadcast on July 18, 2024. Scholar Minakata Kumagusu made contributions to biology, folklore and other fields. He laid the foundation for environmental conservation in Japan. We explore the en...
'Kumano: Journey of a Maverick Scholar' | Japanology Plus: "Scholar Minakata Kumagusu made contributions to biology, folklore and other fields. He laid the foundation for environmental conservation in Japan. We explore the environments that inspired his work." www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...
08.04.2025 04:03 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
The image shows a performer in a traditional costume posing outdoors. The person is dressed in a vibrant and intricate costume resembling a skeleton, featuring red and white patterns over the body. The headpiece is a large mask with skeletal features, including a prominent circular face and exaggerated eyes. The costume includes a yellow and red skirt intended to depict a tiger skin. The individual stands on a stone-paved surface with one hand on their hip. Behind them, a group of monastics sit in the courtyard.
Joseph Rock took stunning photographs of the Tibet-China borderlands between 1922 and 1935, funded in part by the National Geographic Society.
During this span, Rock wrote nine article for National Geographic; some were illustrated with gorgeous hand-colored prints. π§΅
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02.04.2025 15:11 β π 59 π 13 π¬ 1 π 2
Historian. Author. Associate Prof of Cultural History @uophistory.bsky.social C19th fantastical, supernatural folklore, Gothic cities & seas. Co-director of port.ac.uk/portcities The Perilous Deep: A Supernatural History of the Atlantic (Reaktion) out now.
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Historian at UNH. Teaches early America, capitalism, & animals. 1st Book (2013): "The Many Panics of 1837." 2nd Book (coming in August 2025): "Canal Dreamers" https://uncpress.org/book/9781469690551/canal-dreamers/
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World Orders and World/Global History, Great Powers, Asia, China-India; Usual caveats; New Book - Divergent Worlds (Yale University Press, 2025)
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Open-access encyclopedia of European history featuring hundreds of articles written by scholars, published by Sorbonne UniversitΓ©.
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Media lecturer: UK TV history, telefantasy, historical dramas. At Queenβs University Belfast.
Historian at LSE
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The Top Botanical Art Compendium
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An upcoming interdisciplinary literary and arts publication for those interested in the "Heroic Age" of polar exploration.
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