'This book outlines the ways in which the imaginative geography of the Himalayas was constituted by western scientific knowledge, indigenous cosmologies and labour in the nineteenth century contributing to a global science of mountains. Here East India Company surveyors and naturalists jostle with Bhotiya and Tatar mountain guides, their multiple narratives framed through an interdisciplinary lens of botany, biogeography, glaciology, and anthropology. This is environmental history at its best.' Vinita Damodaran, University of Sussex ' [ the book] will fascinate anyone interested in how a complex mix of scientific and human acumen, applied against the Himalayan natural history, led to a modern understanding of the 'roof of the world.' Highly recommended.' J. W. Dauben, Choice 'This is an unusual and interesting multi disciplinary study of imperial expansion, exploration and scientific achievement showing how the world came to see itself in vertical as well as in horizontal terms. Beautifully illustrated and well ordered, it will be an important contribution to the field as well as an absorbing read for the non scientist.' Wendy Palace, Asian Affairs 'Science on the Roof of the World is a compelling interrogation of scale, agency, and mobility in the imperial making of putatively global sciences. It deserves the attention of historians of science interested in the interplay of colonial and indigenous knowledge systems, the impact of terrain on scientific technologies and techniques, and the ways in which European empires haphazardly but enduringly reshaped the modern world.' Thomas Simpson, Isis, a journal of the History of Science Society 'This book will be of keen interest to students and scholars of imperial history, the history of science and the environment, and historical geography.' Katherine Arnold, British Journal for the History of Science
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