An atlas of the Tibetan plateau

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Full Title:: An atlas of the Tibetan plateau / by Michael Farmer
Series Titles:: Brill's Tibetan studies library, volume 50
Brill's Tibetan studies library ; v. 50.

Genre:: Remote-sensing images
Atlases
Subjects:: Tibet Autonomous Region (China)--Maps
Tibet Autonomous Region (China)--Historical geography--Maps
Tibet Autonomous Region (China)--History--Maps

Summary:: "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"--
Language:: English
Physical Type/Description:: 1 atlas (viii, 393 pages) : color illustrations, color maps ; 28 x 30 cm.
General Note:: Includes index.