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Among Flowers, A Walk in the Himalaya
• Jamaica Kincaid
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2007 •
PAPER
• 208 PAGES
An atmospheric account of celebrated writer and gardener Jamaica Kincaid's journey to Nepal and the Himalayas with a small team of botanists. A volume in the National Geographic Directions series.
(HML62, $10.95) |
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China Map
• International Travel Maps
2006 •
MAP
A fine, double-sided map of China, at a useful scale of 1:3,800,000, featuring colorful shaded relief, indexed with an inset map of central Beijing. Fifth edition. It also shows parts of Korea, Mongolia, Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan and Burma. Two Sides. 39x27 inches.
(CHN06, $11.95) |
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Escape from Kathmandu
• Kim Stanley Robinson
LITERATURE •
2000 •
PAPER
• 320 PAGES
Clueless in Kathmandu. The four interconnected stories in this laugh-out-loud novel include the (mis)adventures of two young Americans with a Yeti, international espionage, mountain climbing of the highest sort and a quest for Shangri-La. Keep this page-turner handy for inevitable travel delays and long plane flights. Originally published in 1989.
(NPL41, $18.99) |
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From Heaven Lake, Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet
• Vikram Seth
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
1987 •
PAPER
• 178 PAGES
An unconventional, award-winning travelogue of a 1981 trip to India from China via the Himalayas by the marvelous Indian novelist Vikram Seth.
(HML19, $15.00) |
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
• Jack Weatherford
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
2005 •
PAPER
• 352 PAGES
In this revisionist biography, Weatherford refurbishes the popular image of the great Mongol leader Genghis Khan, portraying him not just as a tyrant but also a religiously tolerant family man and entrepreneur on a world scale (not to mention military genius and crack administrator). The book is a lively portrait of Genghis Khan and the world of the Medieval Mongols, who once ruled the largest land empire on Earth. Weatherford, who has lived and studied in Mongolia, interweaves his own travels and field work on the Central Asian steppes, much of it on horseback. Professor Weatherford is a cultural anthropologist who teaches at Macalester College in St. Paul.
(CAS106, $15.00) |
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Ghosts of Everest, The Search for Mallory & Irvine
• Jochen Hemmleb
• Eric Simonson
• Larry Johnson
EXPLORATION •
2001 •
PAPER
• 208 PAGES
• COMING IN
You may have seen the pictures. This is one of several accounts of the 1999 expedition to determine the fate of George Mallory, who disappeared on Mt. Everest in 1924 (and who may or may not have been the first on Everest 29 years before Norgay and Hillary). Hemmleb, Johnson and Simonson, respected climbers all three and participants in the expedition, contribute to this book as told to hired-hand William Nothdurft. Conrad Anker wrote his own book, "The Lost Explorer (Item no. NPL35),"
(HML39, $24.95) |
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The Great Hill Stations of Asia
• Barbara Crossette
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
1998 •
PAPER
• 272 PAGES
A modern tour of the mountain enclaves of colonial Asia -- appreciative, magnificently researched and engaging. Crossette, an Asia correspondent for the "New York Times," criss-crosses the continent visiting Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Burma, Malaysia, Vietnam, and the Philippines.
(ASA13, $16.00) |
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Himalaya
• Eric Valli
• Anne de Sales
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
2004 •
HARD COVER
• 432 PAGES
A handsome collection of breathtaking photographs of the landscape and people of the Himalayas.
(HML64, $50.00) |
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Himalaya Map
• Nelles
MAP
A colorful regional map of the Himalayas at a scale of 1:1,500,000, including Nepal, Bhutan, Tibet and Sikkim. Two Sides. 20x40 inches.
(HML09, $13.95) |
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Himalayan Passage, Seven Months in the High Country of Tibet, Nepal, China, India, & Pakistan
• Jeremy Schmidt
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
1992 •
PAPER
• 336 PAGES
The story of two adventurous young couples who travel by bike, truck and foot across the Himalayas strong on the culture and people of the region. With 32 pages of color photographs. Starting in Lhasa, Tibet, in the spring of 1987, they headed west along the north slope of the mountains into China and Pakistan and returned on the south side through India and Nepal.
(HML05, $18.95) |
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Himalayan Quest, Ed Viesturs on the 8,000-Meter Giants
• Ed Viesturs
EXPLORATION •
2009 •
PAPER
• 176 PAGES
In 1986, Austrian Reinhold Messner became the first man to scale all 14 peaks which stand above 8,000 meters, all of which are located in the Himalayas. Seventeen years later, Ed Viesturs became the first American to accomplish this daunting feat. This appealing photographic guide chronicles Viestur's journey, complete with breathtaking images of the Himalayan landscape (made more impressive when one imagines how difficult it must have been to take them while climbing!) as well as informative maps of the region.
(HML63, $21.95) |
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Into Thin Air, A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
• Jon Krakauer
EXPLORATION •
1999 •
PAPER
• 360 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.
(HML13, $15.00) |
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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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Kim
• Rudyard Kipling
LITERATURE •
2011 •
PAPER
• 432 PAGES
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 this classic novel. It's one of the great adventure stories -- the enduring tale of an orphan boy who, through happenstance, travels the Grand Trunk Road.
(IDA65, $9.00) |
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Life and Death on Mt. Everest, Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering
• Sherry B. Ortner
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
2001 •
PAPER
• 376 PAGES
A vividly written, scholarly study of the relationship between the Sherpas and the mountaineers who come to "conquer" the Himalayas. Anthropologist Ortner dissects the collision of cultures and their perceptions and preconceptions of each other. For those who like a little theory with their history, it's an important look at mountaineering from the sherpa point of view by an academic who has lived and worked among them since the 1960s.
(TBT33, $29.95) |
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Lost Cosmonaut, Observations of an Anti-tourist
• Daniel Kalder
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2006 •
PAPER
• 288 PAGES
Kalder's offball, offbeat and rather strange report from forgotten corners of the ethnic republics of Tatarstan, Kalmykia, Mari El and Udmurtia in what was once the Soviet Union. Kalder revels in being no-place. Obsessed with a quest he never fully understands Kalder boldly goes where no man has gone before: in the deserts of Kalmykia he stumbles upon a city dedicated to chess and a forgotten tribe of Mongols; in Mari El, home to Europe's last pagan nation, he meets the Chief Druid and participates in an ancient rite; while in the bleak industrial badlands of Udmurtia, Kalder looks for Mikhail Kalashnikov, inventor of the AK 47 and inadvertently becomes a TV star. Profane yet wise, utterly honest yet full of lies, Lost Cosmonaut is an eye- opening, blackly comic tour of our alien planet.
(EUR199, $19.95) |
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Sherpas, Reflections on Change in Himalayan Nepal
• James Fisher
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
1990 •
PAPER
• 205 PAGES
A study of Sherpa society and the change that mountaineering and trekking have brought, which combines the qualities of a memoir and anthropological study. Fisher, who participated in a 1964 expedition to build schools in the region, quotes extensively from interviews, letting the Sherpas speak for themselves. well chosen photographs document change in the region. Fisher concludes it was the airstrip that the team constructed which has had the greatest impact on tourism and, by extension, Sherpa society.
(NPL13, $27.95) |
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Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker: Traveller and Plant Collector
• Raymond Desmond
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
1999 •
HARD COVER
• 286 PAGES
A marvelously illustrated biography of the Victorian explorer and botanist featuring dozens of color and black-and-white photographs and engravings. In addition to plant collecting in the Himalayas, Hooker accompanied Sir James Clark Ross to the Antarctic (1839-1843), explored the Middle East and traveled to the American West. This handsome book, published in conjunction with an exhibition at Kew Gardens, includes excerpts from his "Himalayan Journals" along with many drawings, engravings and lithographs.
(GEN79, $49.50) |
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The Snow Leopard
• Peter Matthiessen
EXPLORATION •
2008 •
PAPER
• 368 PAGES
• FAVORITE
The most perceptive, acutely observed and personal of all his books, Matthiessen's account of a five-week journey through Nepal with George Schaller combines their quest for the magnificent cat with a moving introduction to Buddhism and the people and culture of the Himalayas.
(NPL03, $16.00) |
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South Asia
• Sumit Ganguly
HISTORY •
2006 •
PAPER
• 256 PAGES
A scholarly history of modern South Asia, including India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. Sumit Ganguly is the Rabindranath Tagore Professor of Indian cultures and civilizations and professor of political science at Indiana University.
(IDA308, $21.00) |
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South Asia
• Sumit Ganguly
HISTORY •
2006 •
PAPER
• 256 PAGES
A scholarly history of modern South Asia, including India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. Sumit Ganguly is the Rabindranath Tagore Professor of Indian cultures and civilizations and professor of political science at Indiana University.
(IDA308, $21.00) |
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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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The Travels of Marco Polo
• Marco Polo
• Ronald Lantham
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
1975 •
PAPER
• 380 PAGES
The memories of a 13th-century journey to China along the Silk Road, maybe the most famous travel account ever, as edited by Ronald Lantham. Describing exotic plants, birds, precious gems, silks, and spices with a merchant's eye, this superb geographer recounts his 20 years of travel and return to Venice in 1295.
(CAS05, $15.00) |
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The Wheel of Life, The Autobiography of a Western Buddhist
• John Blofeld
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
1988 •
PAPER
• 316 PAGES
Blofeld's (1913-1987) enchanting account of Buddhist worlds now largely vanished, including his life and travels in China, Tibet, Mongolia, India and Burma. He describes the worlds of remote mountain monasteries, sacred chambers of lamas and yogis, and the everyday lives of ordinary people. Originally published in 1959.
(HML76, $30.00) |
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Wild India, The Wildlife of India and Nepal
• Guy Mountefort
• Gerald Cubitt
NATURAL HISTORY •
2008 •
PAPER
• 208 PAGES
A colorful and informative introduction to the natural history of the region in a handsome, oversize volume with photography by Gerald Cubitt. After a long introductory section, it presents hundreds of extraordinary photographs of the wildlife and landscapes of the Himalayas, Indo-Ganges Plain and the Deccan.
(IDA02, $29.95) |
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A Woman's Asia
• Marybeth Bond
ANTHOLOGY •
2005 •
PAPER
• 310 PAGES
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. Featuring selections from Jan Morris, Pamela Logan and Alison Wright.
(ASA49, $17.95) |
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A Woman's Asia
• Marybeth Bond
ANTHOLOGY •
2005 •
PAPER
• 310 PAGES
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. Featuring selections from Jan Morris, Pamela Logan and Alison Wright.
(ASA49, $17.95) |
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