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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
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These 4 items are available
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U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXHML47) |
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So Close to Heaven, The Vanishing Buddhist Kingdoms of the Himalayas
• Barbara Crossette
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
1996 •
PAPER
• 297 PAGES
• FAVORITE
A "New York Times" Asia correspondent writes of Bhutan and neighboring kingdoms of Ladakh and Sikkim in the Himalayas, strongholds of Tantric Buddhism in an increasingly homogenized world. It's part travelogue and part history -- a personal portrait of the region.
(NPL04, $16.00) |
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The Open Road, The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
• Pico Iyer
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
2009 •
PAPER
• 288 PAGES
Travel writer Pico Iyer, who has known the Dalai Lama since his days as a graduate student in Britain, draws on his long association with the man and his ideas for this remarkable portrait of the Tibetan people and the aspirations of their leader. He includes chapters on daily life in Dharamsala, travels with the Dalai Lama and incisive commentary on the history and future of Tibet. A Best of 2008, this new paper edition is published to mark the 50th anniversary of the Dalai Lama's hair-rasing escape from Tibet over the Himalayas on March 10, 1959.
(TBT118, $15.95) |
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A Journey in Ladakh
• Andrew Harvey
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2000 •
PAPER
• 236 PAGES
A well told account of a 1981 journey by a young English poet in search of ancient Buddhist traditions in remote Ladakh. It's a heartfelt record of a spiritual journey. With a new afterword, twenty years later.
(HML15, $18.95) |
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India North Map
• Nelles
MAP
A colorful regional map of northern India at a scale of 1:1,500,000 with excellent topographic detail. It includes a detailed map of Zanskar & Ladakh at a scale of 1:650,000 Two Sides. 20x36 inches.
(IDA124, $13.95) |
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Also Recommended
The Ancient Silk Road, An Illustrated Map
• Odyssey Maps
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Three large annotated color maps, dozens of photographs and expert commentary illustrate sites across the Silk Road from China across Central Asia, the Middle East and Asia Minor.
(ASA58, $14.95)
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Altitude Illness: Prevention and Treatment, How to Stay Healthy at Altitude
• Stephen Bezruchka
• REFERENCE
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Bezruchka, a mountaineer and M.D., includes case studies, frequently asked questions and simple methods of diagnosis and treatment in this indispensable pocket guide.
(REF02, $8.95)
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Eyewitness Guide Delhi, Agra and Jaipur
• Anuradha Chaturvedi
• GUIDEBOOK
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With chapters on Taj Mahal, Amber Fort Palace, Keoladeo Ghana National Park, Red Fort and dozens of other highlights for the traveler, this compact, gorgeously illustrated guide to Delhi and its environs features 900 color photographs, maps and site plans.
(IDA151, $25.00)
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Buddhist Himalayas
• Olivier and Danielle Follmi
• Mattieu Ricard
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A big, beautiful celebration of the Himalayas, featuring 185 richly colored, often double-page photographs and essays by Mattieu Ricard.
(HML53, $32.95)
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City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
• William Dalrymple
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• FAVORITE
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Dalrymple infectiously interweaves his own experiences over a year in Delhi with the art, architecture, history and literature of the city.
(IDA06, $16.00)
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Essential Tibetan Buddhism
• Robert Thurman
• RELIGION
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The foremost Western scholar of Tibetan Buddhism, Thurman has chosen well from that tradition's sacred literature and helpfully includes suggested further reading, explanatory notes and a directory of sacred sites.
(TBT15, $14.99)
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In Exile from the Land of Snows, The Dalai Lama and Tibet Since the Chinese Occupation
• John Avedon
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• COMING IN
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Avedon's masterful, passionate cris de coeur, still the best book on the subject, shows the lives of the Tibetan people at home and in exile since the Chinese takeover in 1950 through the eyes of its leaders, monks and regular people.
(TBT04, $16.95)
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Meeting God, Elements of Hindu Devotion
• Thomas Moore
• Stephen Huyler
• RELIGION
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A stunningly photographed introduction to the rituals and daily devotion of contemporary Hinduism in India. A companion to the traveling exhibition "Puja, Expressions of Hindu Devotion."
(IDA132, $25.00)
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The Art of Happiness, A Handbook for Living
• Dalai Lama XIV
• RELIGION
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Tenth anniversary edition. Drawing on Buddhist tradition and teaching, His Holiness the Dalai Lama shows how to confront negative emotions, stresses, and obstacles of everyday life in order to find the source of inner peace.
(TBT124, $25.95)
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The Dragon in the Land of Snows
• Tsering Shakya
• HISTORY
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A comprehensive account of the history and political development of Tibet since 1947, which includes eye-opening details of the American, British and Indian players involved in Tibet's struggle for sovereignty.
(TBT32, $18.00)
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Trans-Himalayan Caravans, Merchant Princes and Peasant Traders in Ladakh
• Janet Rizvi
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• COMING IN
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Rizvi draws on archives, historical sources and personal interviews with modern traders in this colorful account of this history of trade in High Asia from the seventh to the twentieth centuries.
(HML86, $29.95)
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World Religions: Eastern Traditions
• Willard G. Oxtoby
• RELIGION
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A clear and insightful introduction to Eastern religions by a team of scholars, covering Hindu, Jain, Sikh, Buddhist and East Asian traditions. Scholarly, but still rewarding for the general reader.
(ASA07, $84.95)
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My Life as an Explorer
• Sven Hedin
• Anthony Brandt
• EXPLORATION
• COMING IN
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One of the great adventure books of all time (it's on National Geographic's list of the 100 greatest, My Life as an Explorer chronicles the extraordinary feats of the indomitable Swede Sven Hedin (1865-1952) across Asia.
(CAS06, $16.00)
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Ancient Futures, Learning from Ladakh
• Dalai Lama
• Peter Matthiessen
• Helena Norberg-Hodge
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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Norberg-Hodge documents her community work and changes from traditional ways of life; she has lived and worked in Ladakh since 1975.
(HML24, $16.95)
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The Silk Road Journey with Xuanzang
• Sally Wriggins
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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A nicely illustrated account of an extraordinary, 16-year trek from Xi'an to India by way of Central Asia in search of the origins of Buddhism by Xuan-Zang, the famous 7th-century Chinese monk.
(ASA31, $25.00)
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Gods, Demons and Others
• R. K. Narayan
• R.K. Laxman
• LITERATURE
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Hindu stories freely adapted by Narayan, one of India's foremost writers. They include tales both highly readable and revealing of Indian Hindu traditions, some drawn from the Ramayana and the Mahabarata.
(IDA101, $23.00)
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Ramayana
• Arshia Sattar
• Valmiki
• LITERATURE
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One of India's greatest epics, this story of good triumphing over evil is both a bedtime story for Indian children and of great interest to philosophers and theologians.
(IDA283, $14.95)
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Birds of India
• Richard Grimmett
• Carol Inskipp
• Tim Inskipp
• FIELD GUIDE
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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)
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Photographic Guide to Birds of the Himalayas
• Bikram Grewal
• FIELD GUIDE
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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)
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