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	Among Flowers, A Walk in the Himalaya • Jamaica Kincaid • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • An atmospheric account of celebrated writer and gardener Jamaica Kincaid's journey to Nepal and the Himalayas with a small team of botanists. (HML62, $10.95)
	Everest, Expedition to the Ultimate • Reinhold Messner • Audrey Salkeld • EXPLORATION • In 1978, Messner and Peter Habler climbed Everest without using supplemental oxygen. This is Messner's frank account of their very difficult -- but ultimately successful -- climb. (HML49, $24.95)
	Everest, The Mountaineers Anthology IV • Peter Potterfield • EXPLORATION • A collection of eyewitness accounts. (NPL49, $16.95)
	A Field Guide to the Birds of the Indian Subcontinent • Krys Kazmierczak • Ber Van Perlo • FIELD GUIDE • A compact field guide to 1,300 species. (FG40, $45.00)
	Glacier Ice • Austin Post • Edward R. LaChapelle • NATURAL HISTORY • A classic book of extraordinary black-and-white aerial photographs of mountains and glaciers, accompanied by explanatory text by two devoted men of ice. The text is by Ed LaChapelle, an avalanche researcher, glaciologist, mountaineer, skier, author and professor, who died in 2007 at 80 of a heart attack while on the slopes in Colorado. Austin Post's stunning aerial photographs of glaciers along the North Pacific Coast of North America and into the interior ranges of Alaska is supplemented with groundbased photographs from the Himalayas, Switzerland, Chile, and other parts of the world. (SCI07, $27.95)
	Himalaya • Eric Valli • Anne de Sales • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A handsome collection of breathtaking photographs of the landscape and people of the Himalayas. (HML64, $50.00)
	Himalayan Quest, Ed Viesturs on the 8,000-Meter Giants • Ed Viesturs • EXPLORATION • A photographic chronicle of the first American to scale all 14 peaks above 8,000 meters without the use of supplemental oxygen. (HML63, $32.00)
	Mountaineering, The Freedom of the Hills • The Mountaineers • GUIDEBOOK • The essential handbook for mountaineers, in a seventh revised edition. With chapters on outdoor fundamentals, rock, snow, ice, and alpine climbing, emergency prevention and response, the mountain environment, and gear. (GEN267, $29.95)
	South Asia • Sumit Ganguly • HISTORY • A scholarly history of modern South Asia, including India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. (IDA308, $18.00)
	Surviving Everest (VHS) • National Geographic • A National Geographic documentary on Mt. Everest. (HML57, $19.95)
	Tales of Mountaineering • Stefano Ardito • EXPLORATION • An oversize photographic history of the great ascents and climbers in 20th-century mountaineering. (EXP51, $35.00)
	The Wheel of Life, The Autobiography of a Western Buddhist • John Blofeld • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • Blofeld's ( (1913-1987) enchanting account of Buddhist worlds now largely vanished, including his life and travels in China, Tibet, Mongolia, India and Burma. (HML76, $30.00)
	A Woman's Asia • Marybeth Bond • ANTHOLOGY • These thirty-five personal, often hilarious accounts of women's adventures from China to Sri Lanka to Turkey to Bhutan, not only illuminating the everyday, oft-overlooked cultural practices of Asia, but also giving a glimpse into the thoughts and feelings of the female traveller. (ASA49, $17.95)

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