Himalaya Vanishing Cultures

by Jan Reynolds

Book Overview

In this series of seven books, photojournalist Jan Reynolds documents the distinctive cultures and climates of indigenous peoples.High in the Himalaya, Yangshi's mother is making a rice drink to trade... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0152344659
• ISBN13: 9780152344658
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Harcourt Brace and Company
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 5.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 11.4" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 7 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 2 and higher

Customer Reviews

Rutgers University Project on Economics and Children

Economic development, technological growth, and environmental degradation have affected the lives of all people on this planet. Yet modernization has changed the way of life more slowly across generations for some people. In this outstanding book series, Jan Reynolds offers readers a fascinating glimpse into several such societies and describes how families meet their subsistence needs, practice their beliefs, interact in their communities, and live in the elements. To effectively communicate some fairly sophisticated lessons to younger children, the clear narratives each focus on a particular family, and the vivid photographs capture a wealth of interesting information about their activities, clothes, food, and surroundings. Seeing a young aborigines boy pulling an enormous carpet snake out of a log and reading about how the Inuit people survived on a diet consisting only of caribou meat and fat are just a few of the unique experiences that reading this book series will entail. The series has seven books. This book, Himalaya, takes us to a village in the Himalaya mountains along the trade routes between Nepal and Tibet.