Salman Rashid

Travel writer, Fellow of Royal Geographical Society

Deosai - where earth meets the sky

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Deosai Sky

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Deosai: Land of the Giant

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Related excerpts: Land of the GiantDeosai National Park and Book Review - Deosai Romance

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Deosai People

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Related: Deosai Truths - Book Review by F. S. Aijazuddin

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With Love from Deosai

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Excerpt - Land of the Giant, Review - Deosai Truths [Book is available at Sang e Meel (042-3722-0100), Lahore]

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کیا آپ نے کبھی دیوسائی کے بارے میں سنا ہے؟

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آپ پا کستان کے شمال میں واقع فلک بوس پہاڑی چوٹیوں کے بارے میں تو ضرور جانتے ہوں گے۔ کیا آپ نے کبھی دیوسائی کے بارے میں سنا ہے؟ یہ پاکستان کے شمالی علاقے سکردو کے قریب ایک بلند چوٹی پر واقع ایک مقام ہے۔ سفر نامے ویو سائی: ’لینڈ آف جائینمس‘ دیوسائی اور اس میں بسنے والے جائینس کے بارے میں ہے۔ یہ کون سی مخلوق ہے، اور دیوسائی کیسی جگہ ہے، اس بارے میں سنیے سفرنامے کے مصنف سلمان رشید سے بی بی سی اردو کی ماہ پارہ صفدر کی خصوصی گفتگو۔

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Deosai: Land of the Giant

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DEOSAI: THE LAND OF THE GIANT by Salman Rashid, with photographs by Nadeem Khawar, (Sang-e-Meel Publications, Lahore, 2013), pp. 176. Price Rs 2,000

Related: Deosai Truths - Book Review by F. S. Aijazuddin,  Special talk on BBC Radio

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Deosai Waters

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Deosai Expanse

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Deosai: Land of the Giant

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Deosai: Land of the Giant is available for download with iBooks on your Mac or iOS device, and with iTunes on your computer. Books can be read with iBooks on your Mac or iOS device

Deosai has long kept an aura of mystery. Long before the first European explorers ventured into this high altitude plateau, vague knowledge of its existence was current in the plains of the Indian subcontinent. Thence the word had been carried by the nomadic Gujjar cow herders who fattened their animals on the rich summer grasses of this vast uninhabited tableland. The Gujjar accounts wafted from person to person to become a confused tale of a plateau stretching flat, unbroken and treeless from the mountains north of the capital of Kashmir all the way to the deserts of Tartary. The myth was finally broken in the 1830s.

The earliest Europeans, both Britons, William Moorcroft and Godfrey Thomas Vigne, were over-awed by its sheer desolation. Both also noted that Deosai was inhabited by large numbers of Tibetan brown bear. Though the elusive snow leopard, fox, wolf and ibex prowl across it, it was the easily seen bear that became the signature species on the plateau.
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Lesser Deosai

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Deosai Life

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Excerpt: Land of the Giant, Review - Deosai Romance, The Little Long tailed Marmot

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The Road to Bari La

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The road to Bari La. The pass, the highest on the eastern flanks of Deosai, lies between the gray ridge and the snow covered peak. Over the pass, the road leads to Matiyal and on to Kargil on the Indian side. 

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Deosai Life

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Deosai Life

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Related: Deosai Truths - Book Review by F. S. Aijazuddin, Podcast on BBC Radio

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Deosai Plateau

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Moors with luxurious grasses rising to the knee, dotted with the tarns, some over four meters deep, with crystal-clear water where snow carp glide lazily, reflect fleecy grey-white thunderheads in a signature setting of Deosai Plateau [Image from Deosai: Land of the Giant].

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Related: Deosai Truths - Review by F. S. Aijazuddin, Deosai - Review by S A J Shirazi, Special Podcast on BBC Radio

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Lake Tala Khumbo

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Shy in Deosai

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Peeking shyly from the doorway of her home, this little girl minds her kid brother while the mother takes care of housework. She wears the traditional hat which follows a basic template design but varies in decoration which is added to progressively whenever the owner has the time or inclination

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My Books

Deosai: Land of the Gaint - New

The Apricot Road to Yarkand


Jhelum: City of the Vitasta

Sea Monsters and the Sun God: Travels in Pakistan

Salt Range and Potohar Plateau

Prisoner on a Bus: Travel Through Pakistan

Between Two Burrs on the Map: Travels in Northern Pakistan

Gujranwala: The Glory That Was

Riders on the Wind

Books at Sang-e-Meel

Books of Days