The Himalaya as a Barrier to Modern Communications

Mason, Kenneth

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“…Shipton was well aware of the (Goudie 1998, 67-72). An honorary member of the Alpine Club, he was Vice President of the RGS in 1937 and he maintained a strong research interest in trade and communication between India and Central Asia (Mason 1936;Braham 1977). In the inter-war period, the influence of H. J. Mackinder was maintained by the Oxford School of Geography, Mason perpetuating Mackinder's interest in Central Asia as the "pivot of history" (Goudie 1998, 67).…”

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That undisclosed world: Eric Shipton'sMountains of Tartary(1950)

Westaway¹

2014

Studies in Travel Writing

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Section: Shipton's Account Of His View Of the Kunlun Shan In 1937 Repmentioning

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That undisclosed world: Eric Shipton'sMountains of Tartary(1950)

Westaway¹

2014

Studies in Travel Writing

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“…During and after World War II, the focus shifted to studies on transcontinental aviation, linking of heretofore distant places, and nascent regional/national airline networks (Wilcox 1930;Mason 1936;Pollog 1937;Plischke 1943;Hinks et al 1944;Van Zandt 1944;Platt 1946;Spoehr 1946;Whittlesey, Williams, and Dawson 1947;de Seversky 1950;Pearcy andAlexander 1951, 1953;Kish 1958). Also, a number of articles in the early 1940s pointed out the shortcomings of using the Mercator projection and the need to devise new cartographic representations for the emerging air transport age (Hinks et al 1944; Geography of Post-War Age Routes 1944).…”

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From Podes to Antipodes: Positionalities and Global Airline Geographies

Zook

Brunn

2006

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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Questions of cost and time distance have long been of interest to geographers and have become a more central concern as globalization advances. We analyze the global air travel system by examining the differences in the costs, distances, and times of one aspect of globalization. We review the extant literature on airline transportation by geographers and others, noting especially the near-century-long interest in unraveling cost, time, and distance issues and designing innovative ways to map these interrelated variables. We expand on this base to bring recent scholarship on power and positionality of cities to our understanding of air travel. Our analysis expands on previous work on airline transport geographies in four distinct ways. First, we developed an international database for a large number of cities worldwide that includes measures of distance, cost, frequency and flight duration of airline connections. Second, this database is examined statistically through ordinary least squares (OLS) regressions to measure variations in airline volume with selected socioeconomic variables. Third, these global airline data are mapped using conventional mapping techniques, and finally, we prepare a set of ''position-grams'' or intersecting spheres of regional variation that measure and map regional patterns and variations in airline connectedness.

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“…Prior to that the first motorcar was brought to Chitral in pieces and reassembled to ply in the main valley on specially constructed roads for the local ruler. Direct access to Chitral by crossing the Lowari pass (3100 m) was ⑴ Kenneth Mason (1936) argues from a strategic point of view when he assesses the Himalayan arc as "barrier to modern communication". Consequently his view takes the impact of railways as the starting point for the discussion of developments in the modern traffic sector (roads and air routes) while neglecting the above-mentioned existing forms of less technology-driven forms of trade and exchange.…”

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Accessibility for High Asia: Comparative perspectives on northern Pakistan’s traffic infrastructure and linkages with its neighbours in the Hindukush-Karakoram-Himalaya

Kreutzmann

2004

J. Mt. Sci.

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Abstract:Starting with a discussion of development concepts which were applied in practice and which followed the developmentalist paradigm the expansion of traffic infrastructure in colonial and post-colonial periods is presented for the High Asian mountain rim. Selective railways and roads are the major feature of this development, which aimed first on serving the convenience of hill station visitors and followed strategic considerations later on. This bias between regional planning and implementation remains a characteristic feature. At the same time traffic infrastructure without asphalt roads is important for the mountain areas, thus breaking up the strong correlation between development and asphalt roads.

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The Himalaya as a Barrier to Modern Communications

Cited by 6 publications

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That undisclosed world: Eric Shipton'sMountains of Tartary(1950)

That undisclosed world: Eric Shipton'sMountains of Tartary(1950)

From Podes to Antipodes: Positionalities and Global Airline Geographies

Accessibility for High Asia: Comparative perspectives on northern Pakistan’s traffic infrastructure and linkages with its neighbours in the Hindukush-Karakoram-Himalaya

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