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INDIA PRIVATE JOURNEY
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Along the Ganges
• Ilija Trojanow
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2011 •
PAPER
• 160 PAGES
In this colorful travelogue, Trojanow follows the Ganges from its source in the Himalayas to the cities that it feeds, using the holy river as a means to ponder Hinduism, culture, ecology and the tension between ancient and modern India.
(IDA294, $11.95) |
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The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor
• Zahiruddin Babur Shah
• Salman Rushdie
• Wheeler M. Thackson
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2002 •
PAPER
• 608 PAGES
As recommended by author Rory Stewart: "The five-hundred-year-old diary of Babur, the first Mughal emperor of India, describes his journey from exile in a small kingdom in Uzbekistan to the conquest of a giant Muslim empire. He is a poet, a general, a statesman, a wine connoisseur, and above all a gardener. He does not attempt to conceal his defeats, his embarrassments, his unrequited loves. His clipped, confident prose reveals both the mentalities and city life of medieval central Asia."
(CAS149, $17.95) |
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Banaras
• Diana L. Eck
HISTORY •
1999 •
PAPER
• 448 PAGES
This history of the holiest and oldest of Indian cities, the home of Shiva, encompasses many millennia of Buddhist and especially Hindu practices along the Ganges.
(IDA211, $29.50) |
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Berlitz Pocket Guide Delhi
• Berlitz Pocket Guides
GUIDEBOOK •
2006 •
PAPER
• 144 PAGES
A shirt pocket guide to the north Indian city with essential travel information, a few photos and some very useful maps.
(IDA333, $8.95) |
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Birds of Northern India
• Richard Grimmett
• Carol Inskipp
FIELD GUIDE •
2003 •
PAPER
• 304 PAGES
A regional field guide by the authors of the masterful five-pound handbook to birds of the region (FG31) with 120 stunning color plates and condensed descriptive information, integrated on facing pages for easy reference in the field. The book covers the states of Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan and Gujarat and Delhi. It does not cover northeast India
(IDA222, $35.00) |
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Climbing the Mango Trees, A Memoir of a Childhood in India
• Madhur Jaffrey
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
2007 •
PAPER
• 320 PAGES
Jaffrey closes her warm tale (peppered with sepia-toned photographs) of coming of age in a sprawling homestead in Old Delhi with 32 savory family recipes.
(IDA327, $15.00) |
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Footprint Rajasthan Handbook
• Matt Barrett
GUIDEBOOK •
2011 •
PAPER
• 352 PAGES
A sturdy guide in the practical Footprint series. It features background information on the history and culture of Rajasthan with sections on Jaipur, Delhi and Agra, as well as practical information for the independent traveler on accommodations and sightseeing.
(IDA267, $24.95) |
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Indian Art, A Concise History
• Roy C. Craven
ART & ARCHITECTURE •
1997 •
PAPER
• 256 PAGES
This convenient volume in the acclaimed "World of Art" series is a crisp, illustrated overview of the range of Indian art over the centuries. Mostly black and white illustrations, with a few in color.
(IDA16, $21.95) |
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The Inheritance of Loss
• Kiran Desai
LITERATURE •
2006 •
PAPER
• 336 PAGES
Alternating between a once grand household in northern India and the life of the cook's son in New York, this novel by the marvelous and wise Desai skewers the aspirations and reality of both worlds. Happily, she immerses the reader in the particulars of place. Winner of the 2006 Man Booker Prize.
(IDA303, $14.95) |
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Lonely Planet Rajasthan, Delhi & Agra
• Abigail Hole
GUIDEBOOK •
2011 •
PAPER
• 388 PAGES
A practical guide to Rajasthan, featuring 36 maps, a good overview of culture, history and nature, and plenty of information on excursions, accommodations and sightseeing. It also includes a handful of color photographs.
(IDA238, $24.99) |
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Love and Longing in Bombay
• Vikram Chandra
LITERATURE •
1998 •
PAPER
• 272 PAGES
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 •
1995 •
HARD COVER
• 533 PAGES
• FAVORITE
Salman Rushdie's greatest book is a madcap, comic, unrestrained novel that takes as its subject the birth of modern India. The narrator, born at the stroke of India's independence on August 15, 1947, is a proxy for the nation itself, and the history of his family is also the history of India.
(IDA589, $25.00) |
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Shantaram, A Novel
• David Gregory Roberts
LITERATURE •
2005 •
PAPER
• 944 PAGES
This epic page-turner, a bestseller in Australia, revolves around the exploits of a young Australian man at large in the streets of 1980s Bombay.
(IDA395, $14.99) |
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A Suitable Boy
• Vikram Seth
LITERATURE •
2005 •
PAPER
• 1488 PAGES
A modern classic set in Calcutta, Delhi and Brahmpur after Independence. Big and unabashedly plotty, it's like a 19th-century English novel in its structure and resolution, yet its trappings are all Indian. While courtesans sing ghazals, while young men make mischief in celebration of Holi, while pilgrims bathe in the Ganges, the newly independent nation of India launches itself into history.
(IDA27, $21.99) |
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India
• Andreas Bitesnich
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
2011 •
HARD COVER
• 256 PAGES
Bitesnich celebrates the diversity of India in 175 color and black-and-white photographs in this sumptuously produced album. With captions.
(IDA632, $98.00) |
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