4 messages.-------------Johnnie ---------------------------------------------------- >From: "L. A. Nadybal" <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: Mustang You're right - there was a semi-independent entity by that anglicized name stuck off in a remote valley on the Nepal-Tibet border. I came across a bibliographic reference to it the other day as I was reading about Bhutan. If you want to read up on it, I'll try to locate the reference again. I also recall seeing a book about Mustang in a sales list from Gamrandt's Books from the Orient Catalog. If your recollection really has led you to want more than a confirmation of your memory, let me know, I'll get you Gamrandt's URL address where his catalog is published. Regards Len Nadybal Washington DC At 03:14 PM 06/12/1996 EST, you wrote: >----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > My memory tells me that there is a nation/kingdom/something called >"MUSTANG", (at least as an English spelling), somewhere along the >India/Nepal/Tibet borders. My questions are: Does it still exist? Where >is/was it? What is/was it? Which reasonably available maps would it be found on? > I have one reference that says: "Mustang is probally a Napalese >mispronunciation of the name of the capital of Lo, the city of Manthang". >Moreover, the reference says: "The name is pronounced "Moo-stang" and has >nothing to do with either the automobile or horse with a similar name". > My need is more to satisfy an old memory rather than any major >reason. However, I would appreciate any comments that are sent. > Fred L. Schaff, <[log in to unmask]> > > ------------------------------------------------------------ >Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 22:33:28 -0700 (MST) >From: Ronald Whistance-Smith <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: Mustang Dear Fred, Nothing wrong with your memory. 29 deg. N, 84 deg. E. National Geographic, Oct., 1965, pp 579-604: Cover title is Mustang, Nepal's lost Kingdom. Title on article: Mustang, Remote realm of Nepal. Small map in the article is 1:800,000 and accompanies a location map of Nepal. The American Association of Geographers produced a Map Supplement at a larger scale. I can't remember the year but it will be available in your local University Map Library (or should be). Other maps readily available at ever increasing scales are 1:1,000,000 - either ONC Chart H-9 or IMW sheet NH 44. At 1:500,000 there is probably a TPC chart which will be number H-9B. At 1:250,000 see USAMS series for India which includes Nepal. Ron Ron Whistance-Smith 14520 84th Ave. NW Edmonton, AB Canada T5R 3X2 FAX: (403) 483-5858 email: [log in to unmask] ------------------------------------------------------------- >Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 09:08:17 -0700 (PDT) >From: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: Mustang Fred: Mustang is indeed a region in Nepal, at 29 degrees 10' N, 83 degrees 55' E, in the west central part of the country, north of Pokhara and just south of the Tibetan border - the protrusion of Mustang into Tibet is easy to spot on a map. National Geographic did a memorable article on the subject: "Mustang, Remote Realm in Nepal", by Michel Peissel, p. 579-604, October, 1965. I wasn't able to get that far into the interior when in Nepal, but I remembered the article vividly. Brian P. Bach Map Technician, Central Washington University [log in to unmask] ------------------------------------------------------- >Date: Sat, 07 Dec 1996 14:27:38 -0500 (EST) >From: David Y Allen <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: Mustang State University of New York at Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY 11794-3331 David Y Allen Library-Reference 516 632-7110 07-Dec-1996 02:20pm EST FROM: DYALLEN TO: Remote Addressee ( [log in to unmask] ) Subject: Re: Mustang Mustang is an English name for Lo Monthang, which is now a semi-autonomous part of Nepal, although it was formerly a separate kingdom. Peter Matthiessen has recently written a couple of articles about his travels th ere, one of which appeared in Conde Nast Traveler, v. 27 (1992), 148 ff.