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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. EXIDA275) |
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India Safari Companion
• Alain Pons
GUIDEBOOK •
2007 •
PAPER
• 80 PAGES
A colorful illustrated guide to wildlife, photographic opportunities and travel in India. There are beautiful photographs on every page, each accompanied by a caption with photography tips for travellers looking to get the most out of their cameras.
(IDA371, $14.95) |
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City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
• William Dalrymple
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
2003 •
PAPER
• 350 PAGES
• FAVORITE
A year's sojourn in Old Delhi provides the springboard for a brilliant ramble through several thousand years of the city's history; architecture, art and literature are leavened and lightened by a mixture of the author's daily life. Any visitor will see a Delhi, New and Old, with fresh eyes after walking through the crowds on Chandni Chowk with the incomparable Dalrymple as guide.
(IDA06, $16.00) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Also Recommended
Love Delhi
• Fiona Caulfield
• GUIDEBOOK
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Packaged in very fashionable locally woven cloth, this beautifully made, discerning guide captures the soul of the city, pointing with authority to neighborhoods, shops, markets, restaurants and attractions. A labor of love by the Bangalore-based Fiona Caulfield and friends. Third edition.
(IDA403, $50.00)
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Love Mumbai
• Fiona Caulfield
• GUIDEBOOK
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This beautifully made, affectionate guide, packaged in its own satchel of locally woven cloth or khadi and printed on hand-made paper, captures the soul of the city, pointing with authority to neighborhoods, shops, markets, restaurants and attractions. 3rd Edition.
(IDA389, $50.00)
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In Spite of the Gods, The Strange Rise of Modern India
• Edward Luce
• HISTORY
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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)
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May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons, A Journey Among the Women of India
• Elisabeth Bumiller
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A wonderfully written and 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)
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The Idea of India
• Sunil Khilnani
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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Khilnani confronts the complexities, paradoxes and challenges of the nation in this brief, elegant survey of India since independence.
(IDA160, $17.00)
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Taj Mahal
• Giles Tillotson
• Mary Beard
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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An enlightening pocket guide to the myth, meaning and legends of the celebrated tomb, "the queen of architecture."
(IDA528, $19.95)
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An Autobiography, Or the Story of My Experiments with Truth
• Mohandas K. Gandhi
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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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)
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Kim
• Rudyard Kipling
• LITERATURE
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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, $9.00)
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Love and Longing in Bombay
• Vikram Chandra
• LITERATURE
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Five transfixing stories in five different genres, united in setting and authorship by the contemporary wizard of the human condition, Vikram Chandra.
(IDA216, $19.99)
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Midnight's Children
• Salman Rushdie
• LITERATURE
• FAVORITE
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Crowned Best of the Booker in 2008, Rushdie's greatest novel is a madcap, comic take on the birth of modern India in all its splendid and unexpected manifestations.
(IDA12, $16.00)
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The White Tiger, A Novel
• Aravind Adiga
• LITERATURE
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Mordant, funny, angry, horrifying, this Booker Prize-winning tale of a village pauper turned success (and murderer) skewers the ambition, inequity and corruption of 21st-century India.
(IDA542, $15.00)
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Tiger, Soul of India
• Valmik Thapar
• NATURAL HISTORY
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This lavish tribute features 250 color photographs, examples of art over the ages and engaging essays by tiger wallah Thapar, who has spent 30 years observing tigers.
(IDA246, $49.95)
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Wild India, The Wildlife of India and Nepal
• Guy Mountefort
• Gerald Cubitt
• NATURAL HISTORY
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An informative introduction to the natural history of the region in a handsome oversize volume. With hundreds of extraordinary photographs of the wildlife and landscapes of the Himalayas, the Indo-Ganges Plain and the Deccan.
(IDA02, $29.95)
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A Photographic Guide to the Birds of India and Nepal
• Bikram Grewal
• FIELD GUIDE
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A slim pocket guide to 252 of the most conspicuous birds of India and Nepal.
(IDA46, $15.95)
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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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