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Essential Books These 5 items are available for $93, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXPKN05)		  
War at the Top of the World, The Struggle for Afghanistan, Kashmir, and Tibet  •  Eric Margolis
HISTORY •  2002 •  PAPER  • 288 PAGES
Margolis, a veteran correspondent in the region, presents a detailed overview of the ongoing struggle over the high Himalayas, showing their strategic importance to Pakistan, India and China. Updated throughout for this second edition, including a new chapter on the Taliban. He sorts out confusing religious differences, complex geographies and politics with clarity, explaining -- for example -- the strategic value of the 16,000-foot Siachen Glacier where oxygen-starved Indian and Pakistani soldiers have been fighting for years. (PKN09, $30.95)		   War at the Top of the World, The Struggle for Afghanistan, Kashmir, and Tibet
Meatless Days  •  Sara Suleri
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  1991 •  PAPER  • 186 PAGES
Suleri's memoir of childhood and adolescence in postcolonial Pakistan is an ambitious book, as remarkable for its thoughtful analysis of history as for its wonderful, writerly sense of place. Suleri, daughter of journalist Z.A. Suleri, is now a professor of English at Yale, and here she brilliantly recalls her homeland and the family that she left. (PKN13, $14.00)		   Meatless Days
K2, Triumph and Tragedy  •  Jim Curran
EXPLORATION •  1997 •  PAPER
This is a tense account of disaster on the world's second highest mountain in 1986. The author was on the mountain when 13 climbers in 9 different expeditions died. (PKN05, $15.00)		   K2, Triumph and Tragedy
Pakistan Map  •  Nelles
MAP
A detailed map of Pakistan by the German publisher Nelles at a scale of 1,500,000. It's an attractive map with good topographic relief, especially appreciated for the high mountain areas of the country. Two Sides. 20x36 inches. (PKN08, $13.95)		   Pakistan Map
Lonely Planet Pakistan & the Karakoram Highway  •  Sarina Singh  •  Lindsay Brown  •  Owen Bennett-Jones  •  John Mock  •  Kimberley O'Neil  •  Samina Yasmeen
GUIDEBOOK •  2008 •  PAPER  • 432 PAGES
A practical guide to Pakistan and the Karakoram Highway in the hallmark Lonely Planet style, featuring background information on history and culture as well as plenty of practical information for the traveler. (PKN17, $26.99)		   Lonely Planet Pakistan & the Karakoram Highway



Also Recommended

Spectrum Guide to Pakistan  •  Camerapix   • GUIDEBOOK  •  An excellent overview of the history, nature and attractions of Pakistan. (PKN07, $22.95)
 		  
Al-Qur'an: A Contemporary Translation  •  Ali Jamale Ahmed   • RELIGION  •  A handsome bilingual edition of the Holy Book of Islam as elegantly translated by the Pakistani novelist, critic and diplomat Ahmed Ali. (ISL02, $19.95)
 		  
Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress  •  Jan Morris   • HISTORY • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE  •  A wonderful portrait of early (pre-1897) British colonial rule in India, Central Asia, Africa and elsewhere. Morris weaves historical accounts, character studies, and much imagination into this readable, compelling tale. (IDA20, $38.95)
 		  
Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy  •  Ayesha Jalal  •  Sugata Bose   • HISTORY  •  This scholarly, brief history of India up to the 1990s is particularly good at its coverage of the post-Independence political landscape. It's a popular textbook, co-authored by a Pakistani and an Indian. (IDA192, $37.95)
 		  
Pakistan, A Modern History  •  Ian Talbot   • HISTORY  •  A detailed, comprehensive survey of Pakistan's history and politics -- for the dedicated reader only. (PKN06, $34.00)
 		  
Price of Honor, Muslim Women Lift the Veil of Silence on the Islamic World  •  Jan Goodwin   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A heart-breaking account based on interviews with women from all walks of life in 10 countries in the Middle East, Arabia and Central Asia. (ISL19, $17.00)
 		  
Raj, The Making and Unmaking of British India  •  Lawrence James   • HISTORY  •  An anecdotal, engrossing mostly military history of the East India Company. (IDA87, $24.99)
 		  
Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan  •  Robert D. Kaplan   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A firsthand report from the region, originally published in 1990 and with a new final chapter on how the Taliban came to power. (CAS81, $16.00)
 		  
Three Cups of Tea, One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations . . . One School at a Time  •  Greg Mortenson  •  David Oliver Relin   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  The fascinating true story of American nurse Mortenson who attempted to scale K2 in 1993 and ended up sheltered in a remote Pakistani mountain village. In return, he set up the village's first school, a project which expanded into the 50-school Central Asia Institute (PKN20, $16.00)
 		  
Beyond Belief, Islamic Excursions Among the Converted People  •  V.S. Naipaul   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Revisiting his "Among the Believers", Naipaul returns to the Islamic nations of Indonesia, Pakistan, Malaysia and Iran. (ASA14, $17.00)
 		  
Empires of the Indus, The Story of a River  •  Alice Albinia   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Albinia follows the great river from Pakistan upstream and back in time, tracing 2,000 miles of geography and five millennia of history. (PKN25, $16.95)
 		  
Himalayan Passage, Seven Months in the High Country of Tibet, Nepal, China, India, & Pakistan  •  Jeremy Schmidt   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  National Geographic Expert Jeremy Schmidt and photographer Patrick Morrow recount their circumnavigation of the Himalayas, accompanied by their wives. Their journey by bike, truck and foot across Tibet, Nepal, China, India and Pakistan is illustrated with 32 pages of color photographs. (HML05, $18.95)
 		  
Stones Into Schools  •  Greg Mortenson   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Mortenson continues his moving tale of promoting peace in Pakistan and Afghanistan with this sequel to Three Cups of Tea. (PKN26, $16.00)
 		  
The Great Hill Stations of Asia  •  Barbara Crossette   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A modern tour of the mountain enclaves of colonial Asia -- appreciative, magnificently researched and engaging. (ASA13, $16.00)
 		  
Where the Indus is Young, Midwinter in Baltistan  •  Dervla Murphy   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  For three months Dervla and six-year-old Rachel explore Little Tibet, high in the Karakoram Mountains, traveling on foot and by pony along the Indus Gorge and into nearby valleys. Originally published in 1977. (PKN16, $29.95)
 		  
Epic, Stories of Survival from the World's Highest Peaks  •  Clint Willis   • ANTHOLOGY  •  A terrific collection of great writing about mountaineering. (HML37, $17.95)
 		  
Flashman and the Mountain of Light  •  George MacDonald Fraser   • LITERATURE  •  In this 9th installment in the rollicking, meticulously researched series the sardonic Flashman is off to the Punjab for more lechery, cowardice and aggrandizement in the service of Her Majesty. (IDA291, $15.00)
 		  
Shame  •  Salman Rushdie   • LITERATURE  •  This is Rushdie's fictionalized account of the first 40 years of Pakistan and the reign of the Bhutto clan. Though the author takes his usual liberties with magic, coincidence, and parallel lives, the book is a historical novel at its core. (PKN12, $15.00)
 		  
A Photographic Guide to the Birds of India and Nepal  •  Bikram 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  •  Thoroughly revised, with 73 new plates and many others updated or repainted, the second edition of the masterful Birds of India now features all maps and text opposite the plates for quicker and easier reference. (FG43, $39.50)
 		  
Birds of Pakistan  •  Richard Grimmett   • FIELD GUIDE  •  This compact, authoritative field guide is by the same team that produced the superb Birds of India features 93 color plates. (PKN23, $40.00)
 		  
Photographic Guide to Birds of the Himalayas  •  Bikram Grewal   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A pocket guide to 250 birds found from the foothills up to high elevations ranging from the Hindu Kush and Kashmir to Arunachal Pradesh in the Eastern Himalayas. With brief descriptive information, maps and 260 full-color illustrations. (HML31, $15.95)
 		  
Lahore, A Sentimental Journey  •  Pran Neville    •  Author's memoirs of Lahore in the 1930's and 1940's. (PKN03, $16.00)
 		  
 
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