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Insight Guide India
Insight Guides
GUIDEBOOK 2010 PAPER 432 PAGES
A volume in the award-winning Insight series, this guide is noted for its wonderful photography, full-color maps, superb production and informative short essays on contemporary topics such as India's movie industry, language, and cuisine. It includes introductions to the major temples, forts, and wildlife sites, as well as background on each region, and plenty of photos and maps. A well illustrated overview of the culture, history and attractions of the subcontinent for travelers.
(IDA19, $24.99)
India
Stanley Wolpert
HISTORY 2009 PAPER 281 PAGES
A wonderfully literate introduction to India by the acknowledged master. Author of 14 books and a professor of history since 1958, Wolpert distills a tremendous amount of information in this detailed overview, tackling the environment, religion and philosophy, the arts and sciences, domestic and foreign policy, and culture.
(IDA04, $21.95)
Wild India, The Wildlife of India and Nepal
Guy Mountefort Gerald Cubitt
NATURAL HISTORY 2008 PAPER 208 PAGES
A colorful and informative introduction to the natural history of the region in a handsome, oversize volume with photography by Gerald Cubitt. After a long introductory section, it presents hundreds of extraordinary photographs of the wildlife and landscapes of the Himalayas, Indo-Ganges Plain and the Deccan.
(IDA02, $29.95)
Mammals of India
Vivek Menon
FIELD GUIDE 2009 PAPER 200 PAGES
A new Princeton Field Guide edition of Menon's beautifully illustrated, authoritative field guide, featuring extensive notes and clear photographs for each of 400 species of monkeys, sheep and antelope, elephant, tiger and other cats, badgers, pikas, squirrels, bats, whales and dolphins.
(IDA546, $35.00)
India Map
ITMB
2009 MAP
A double-sided shaded relief map of India at the excellent scale of 1:2,100,000, printed on tear and waterproof paper. With an index, it shows major roads, rivers, and locations of national parks. Two Sides. 27x40 inches.
(IDA18, $12.95)
Culture Smart! India
Nick Grihault
GUIDEBOOK
A concise, well-illustrated guide to both social and business customs in India.
(IDA298, $13.35)
Eyewitness Guide Delhi, Agra and Jaipur
Anuradha Chaturvedi
GUIDEBOOK
This compact, gorgeously illustrated guide to Delhi and its environs features 900 color photographs, maps and site plans.
(IDA151, $25.00)
A Traveller's History of India
Sinharaja Tammita-Delgoda
HISTORY
A condensed introduction to the themes and events that have shaped India from prehistory to Rajiv Gandhi's rule.
(IDA57, $14.95)
City of Djinns, A Year in Delhi
William Dalrymple
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
FAVORITE
Dalrymple infectiously interweaves his own experiences over a year in Delhi with the art, architecture, history and literature of the city.
(IDA06, $16.00)
In Spite of the Gods, The Strange Rise of Modern India
Edward Luce
HISTORY
Luce tackles the challenges and reality of the world's largest democracy with insight and balance in this portrait of a nation in transition.
(IDA349, $16.00)
May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons, A Journey Among the Women of India
Elisabeth Bumiller
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
A wonderfully written, fascinating portrayal of Indian women from Bollywood stars to Indira Gandhi to prostitutes. It's an insightful portrait of the country as seen through the eyes of its women.
(IDA37, $14.95)
Mughal India, Splendours of the Peacock Throne
Valerie Berinstain
Paul Bahn
HISTORY
Lavishly illustrated, this pocket guide presents the history, culture and splendor of the Mughal court and its celebrated architecture in hundreds of archival photographs and drawings.
(IDA50, $15.95)
Darsan, Seeing the Divine Image in India
Diana L. Eck
ART & ARCHITECTURE
Tremendously useful for the traveler, this rigorous guide explains the significance and meaning of Hindu temples, festivals and ritual. Darsan, which translates as "seeing", reveals religious expression in India.
(IDA75, $25.00)
Hindu Art and Architecture
George Michell
ART & ARCHITECTURE
An excellent survey of Hindu art and architecture, explaining the meaning and construction of principal images and buildings, as well as the development of Hinduism and the corpus of myths that have influenced its artistic tradition.
(IDA147, $18.95)
Taj Mahal
M.C. Joshi
Jean-Louis Nou
Amina Okada
ART & ARCHITECTURE
This lavish portrait features 158 full-color photographs (including four magnificent foldout panels) by the extraordinary Jean-Louis Nou. With grand exterior views, filigreed inscriptions and bejeweled floral mosaics.
(IDA108, $75.00)
An Autobiography, Or the Story of My Experiments with Truth
Mohandas K. Gandhi
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
There is no substitute for reading Gandhi in his own simple, direct prose. A highly recommended glimpse into the personality and life of this remarkable figure.
(IDA163, $10.95)
River Dog, A Journey Down the Brahmaputra
Mark Shand
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
Shand's touching, eloquent and entertaining chronicle of a journey from Tibet to the Bay of Bengal on the mighty Brahmaputra -- in the company of his Indian hunting dog Bhaiti.
(IDA256, $16.95)
Travelers' Tales India
James O'Reilly
Larry Habegger
ANTHOLOGY
A collection of 45 descriptive and thought-provoking short excerpts on Indian life and culture, including contributions from Rushdie, Naipaul and Dalrymple, plus some valuable excerpts from books long out of print.
(IDA05, $19.95)
A Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry
LITERATURE
FAVORITE
Set in Indira Gandhi's "Emergency Raj" of 1975 in an unnamed Indian "city by the sea," which bears a striking resemblance to Bombay, this tender novel follows the intermingled fortunes of a Parsi widow, her boarder and two tailors.
(IDA92, $15.95)
Kim
Rudyard Kipling
LITERATURE
For the sheer pleasure of its prose, insight into the British in India and its extraordinary sense of place, you can't do better than Kipling's classic novel about a boy who travels the Grand Trunk Road with the Dalai Lama.
(IDA65, $7.00)
Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie
LITERATURE
FAVORITE
A madcap, comic take on the birth of modern India in all its splendid and unexpected manifestations, Rushdie's greatest novel was recently crowned "Best of the Booker." The title refers to those, like the narrator, born at the stroke of midnight August 15, 1947.
(IDA12, $16.00)
The Jungle Books
Rudyard Kipling
LITERATURE
Mowgli, an Indian boy adopted by wolves, learns the ways of the jungle as he grows up in the company of cobras, panthers, bears and tigers. Kipling set his adventures in what is now Kanha National Park.
(IDA313, $4.95)
India Safari Companion
Alain Pons
NATURAL HISTORY
A colorful, illustrated slim guide to wildlife, photography and travel in India.
(IDA371, $14.95)
India: Kingdom of the Tiger
Bruce Neibaur
NATURAL HISTORY
This dazzling film of tigers in the wild and pioneering conservation efforts was filmed on location at Bhandhavgarh Tiger Reserve.
(IDA248, $19.99)
Of Tigers and Men
Richard Ives
NATURAL HISTORY
HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE
A haunting, beautifully written tale of a man's quest to encounter tigers in the wild, and to understand the meaning of the threat of the tiger's extinction. Ives visits the forests of India, Thailand, and Sumatra.
(IDA30, $12.50)
Tiger, The Ultimate Guide
Valmik Thapar
NATURAL HISTORY
This lavish tribute features color photographs, examples of art over the ages and engaging essays by tiger wallahs including Thapar, who has spent 30 years observing tigers in the wild.
(IDA246, $39.95)
A Photographic Guide to the Birds of India
B. Grewal
Bill Harvey
Otto Pfister
FIELD GUIDE
A comprehensive photographic guide to the subcontinent.
(IDA215, $35.00)
A Photographic Guide to the Birds of India and Nepal
B. Grewal
FIELD GUIDE
A slim pocket guide to 252 of the most conspicuous birds of India and Nepal.
(IDA46, $15.95)
Birds of India
Richard Grimmett
Carol Inskipp
Tim Inskipp
FIELD GUIDE
A compact, authoritative guide to 1,300 birds of the subcontinent, from Nepal and Bhutan to Sri Lanka, with stunning color plates, range maps and descriptive information on facing pages.
(FG43, $35.00)
Birds of Northern India
Richard Grimmett
Carol Inskipp
FIELD GUIDE
A regional field guide to 180 species of birds, with 120 stunning color plates and condensed descriptive information, integrated on facing pages for easy reference in the field.
(IDA222, $35.00)
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