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Annapurna, A Woman's Place
• Arlene Blum
EXPLORATION •
1998 •
PAPER
• 247 PAGES
This account of the historic 1978 climb celebrates the first American ascent of Annapurna by a team of 13 women. The climbers were also, notably, the first women to scale any of the world's 8,000 meter-peaks. Two of the women died in the process. This illustrated 20th anniversary edition, with a preface by Maurice Herzog, includes an afterword. Much of the book takes the form of an illustrated journal.
(HML30, $19.95) |
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Himalayan Hermitess, The Life of a Tibetan Buddhist Nun
• Kurtis Schaeffer
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
2004 •
PAPER
• 232 PAGES
The vivid account of the life of Orgyan Chokyi (1675-1729), who spent her life in Dolpo. Illiterate and expressly forbidden by her master to record her life, Orgyan Chokyi is said to have received divine inspiration to write this tale. Scaeffer gives an overview of regious traditions and a history of this early autobiography in part one of the book.
(NPL56, $30.00) |
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Into Thin Air, A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
• Jon Krakauer
EXPLORATION •
1997 •
HARD COVER
• 256 PAGES
In this bestseller, climber and journalist Krakauer reconstructs a minute-by-minute account of what went wrong on the great mountain in 1996. He captures the immediacy of those few hours on Everest when disaster struck -- and the psychological complexity of surviving a tragedy.
(HML08, $28.00) |
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Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism
• John Powers
RELIGION •
2007 •
PAPER
• 591 PAGES
A comprehensive study of the history and philosophy behind Tibetan Buddhism, suitable for the general reader. Powers (a professor of religion at Wright State University and a Tibetan Buddhist himself) clarifies the festivals, doctrines, schools and symbolism associated with the devotion, all within its historical and cultural context. Divided into four sections, it covers: the Indian origins of the religion; Tibetan religious history and culture; doctrines and practices; and the four schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
(TBT40, $22.95) |
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Man-Eaters of Kumaon
• Jim Corbett
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
1993 •
PAPER
• 214 PAGES
These are the memoirs of a turn-of-the-century hunter-turned-conservationist who was much loved in India. Corbett has a park named after him and this book will help you to understand why. It is intelligently written, respectful, and great fun -- an excellent portrait of the Indian hill stations of Uttarakhand.
(HML12, $19.95) |
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A Naturalist and Other Beasts
• George B. Schaller
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
2010 •
PAPER
• 272 PAGES
In this absorbing memoir the eminent zoologist writes with authority and affection of his many field expeditions over a long career in conservation, including his time among the mountain gorillas in Rwanda, snow leopards in Nepal and his groundbreaking work on giant pandas in Sichuan.
(NAT119, $16.95) |
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Tigerland, and Other Unintended Destinations
• Eric Dinerstein
NATURAL HISTORY •
2007 •
PAPER
• 296 PAGES
Dinerstein, chief scientist with WWF, chronicles his globe-trotting adventures in this series of seven enjoyably engaging essays. Our reluctant hero lucks into the Peace Corps in Nepal, has a grand time with some of the greats in tropical ecology in Costa Rica, heads out to Ladakh to study snow leopards, finds himself in New Caledonia, East Africa, Galapagos, the plains of Montana and then back in Nepal. Dinerstein is a wise and witty writer, combining stories of his own transformation into a conservation biologist with deft portraits of key researchers and some fine observations about place.
(CON30, $25.00) |
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Touching My Father's Soul, A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest
• Jamling Tenzing Norgay
• Broughton Coburn
• Dalai Lama
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
2002 •
PAPER
• 316 PAGES
A personal account of the business of Everest, the 1996 IMAX Expedition and, most significantly, of a son who is grappling with the legacy of a famous father. The son of the man who reached the summit of Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary in 1953, Norgay has spent his entire life immersed in the culture, rituals and religion of the Sherpas.
(NPL42, $15.99) |
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