| 词条 | Roof of the World |
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For the Doctor Who episode, see Marco Polo (Doctor Who). For the Doctor Who audio story, see The Roof of the World. For the ancient geography of this region, see Mount Imeon. The Roof of the World or Top of the World is a metaphoric description of the high region in the world, also known as High Asia. The term usually refers to the mountainous interior of Asia, including the Pamirs, the Himalayas, the Tibet, the Tian Shan and the Altai Mountains. Attested usageThe British explorer John Wood, writing in 1838, described Bam-i-Duniah (Roof of the World) as a "native expression" (presumably Wakhi),[1] and it was generally used for the Pamirs in Victorian times: In 1876 another British traveller, Sir Thomas Edward Gordon, employed it as the title of a book[2] and wrote in Chapter IX: "We were now about to cross the famous 'Bam-i-dunya','The Roof of the World' under which name the elevated region of the hitherto comparatively unknown Pamir tracts had long appeared in our maps.[...] Wood, in 1838, was the first European traveller of modern times to visit the Great Pamir,".[3] Older encyclopedias also used "Roof of the World" to describe the Pamirs:
With the awakening of public interest in Tibet, the Pamirs, "since 1875 ... probably the best explored region in High Asia",[4] went out of the limelight and the description "Roof of the World" has been increasingly applied to Tibet[9][10] and the Tibetan plateau, and occasionally, esp. in French ("Toît du monde"), even to Mt. Everest,[11] but the traditional use is still alive.[12] See also
References1. ^Keay, John (1983) When Men and Mountains Meet {{ISBN|0-7126-0196-1}}; p. 153 2. ^[https://archive.org/stream/roworldanarrati00gordgoog/roworldanarrati00gordgoog_djvu.txt Sir Thomas Edward Gordon, The Roof of the World:] being a narrative of a journey over the high plateau of Tibet to the Russian frontier and the Oxus sources on Pamir, Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1876 3. ^Gordon, p. 121f. 4. ^1 Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed.(1911) 5. ^The Columbia Encyclopedia; 1942 edition, p. 1335 6. ^Guillaume Capus, Le Toit du Monde (Pamir), voyage extrême orient. Illustré de 31 Vignettes et d'une Carte, Paris: Hachette et Cie. 1890 = Bibliographia Marmotarum. Ramousse R., International Marmot Network, Lyon, 1997. {{ISBN|2-95099-0029}}Guillaume Capus 7. ^Der Große Brockhaus in 20 vols, 15th ed., Leipzig 1928–35, vol. 4 (1929), p. 319 8. ^Der Große Brockhaus, vol. 14 (1933), p. 96 9. ^{{Cite book|url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/hotel-on-the-roof-of-the-world-from-miss-tibet-to-shangri-la/oclc/845721671&referer=brief_results|title=The Hotel on the Roof of the World: from Miss Tibet to Shangri-La|last=Le Sueur|first=Alec|date=2003-01-01|publisher=RDR Books|isbn=1571431012|location=Oakland, Calif|language=English}} 10. ^{{Cite news|url=http://tibet.net/COP21/|title=Tibet: Climate Action for the Roof of the World|work=Central Tibetan Administration|access-date=2017-04-17|language=en-US}} 11. ^Encyclopédie et Dictionnaires Larousse. 12. ^The Pamirs, a region known to locals as Pomir – “the roof of the world". 2 : Metaphors|Mountains of Asia |
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