Words for My Brother: Travels Between the Hindu Kush and the Himalayas |
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... farms and plentiful family labour , and the conscientious use of animal dung as manure probably explain these high yields . Certainly we found in Hakis , and later in other villages , that farmers are well aware of a relationship ...
... farms and plentiful family labour , and the conscientious use of animal dung as manure probably explain these high yields . Certainly we found in Hakis , and later in other villages , that farmers are well aware of a relationship ...
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... farmers there have few animals . Conversely the village of Singal , bet- ween Gakuch and Cher Kila , is at the mouth of a tributary valley whose total area is 170 square miles , so it was not sur- prising to find that farmers in that ...
... farmers there have few animals . Conversely the village of Singal , bet- ween Gakuch and Cher Kila , is at the mouth of a tributary valley whose total area is 170 square miles , so it was not sur- prising to find that farmers in that ...
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... farmers used to mutter . A friend explained how bulls form a defensive ring round cows and heifers if a wolf or leopard came , but added that there are few predators left in the mountains around Gilgit now . ' Even so , ' he said , ' we ...
... farmers used to mutter . A friend explained how bulls form a defensive ring round cows and heifers if a wolf or leopard came , but added that there are few predators left in the mountains around Gilgit now . ' Even so , ' he said , ' we ...
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Prologue | 1 |
The Mountains | 10 |
A Difficult Precipitous and Dangerous Road | 25 |
Copyright | |
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