{"product_id":"2940013580220","title":"THE CLIFF CLIMBERS","description":"CHAPTER ONE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE HIMALAYAS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWho has not heard of the Himalayas--those Titanic masses of mountains\u003cbr\u003ethat interpose themselves between the hot plains of India and the cold\u003cbr\u003etable-lands of Thibet--a worthy barrier between the two greatest empires\u003cbr\u003ein the world, the Mogul and the Celestial?  The veriest tyro in\u003cbr\u003egeography can tell you that they are the tallest mountains on the\u003cbr\u003esurface of the earth; that their summits--a half-dozen of them at\u003cbr\u003eleast--surmount the sea-level by more than five miles of perpendicular\u003cbr\u003eheight; that more than thirty of them rise above twenty thousand feet,\u003cbr\u003eand carry upon their tops the eternal snow!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe more skilled geographer, or _geognosist_, could communicate hundreds\u003cbr\u003eof other interesting facts in relation to these majestic mountains; vast\u003cbr\u003evolumes might be filled with most attractive details of them--their\u003cbr\u003e_fauna_, their _sylva_, and their _flora_.  But here, my reader, we have\u003cbr\u003eonly space to speak of a few of the more salient points, that may enable\u003cbr\u003eyou to form some idea of the Titanic grandeur of these mighty masses of\u003cbr\u003esnow-crowned rock, which, towering aloft, frown or smile, as the case\u003cbr\u003emay be, on our grand empire of Ind.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47171673784560,"sku":"2940013580220","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013580220_p0.jpg?v=1763583079","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013580220","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}