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INDIA: ROYAL RAJASTHAN TREK
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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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Brahma's Pushkar, Ancient Indian Pilgrimage
• Aman Nath
• Rajan Kapoor
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
2006 •
HARD COVER
• 204 PAGES
• COMING IN
The myth, history, ancient rites and legdens surrounding Pushkar, its pilgrims, traders, and visitors are documented in nearly 500 color photographs and illuminating text. Ample attention is paid to the celebrated Camel Fair (held once a year during the full moon in November). With notes and album on the the three parikramas (walking pilgrimages).
(IDA304, $55.00) |
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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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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
• Elizabeth Gilbert
LITERATURE •
2007 •
PAPER
• 352 PAGES
Gilbert chronicles in luminous prose a year-long odyssey not just to escape from an ugly divorce but also to discover the world and herself. The book, like her quest, is in three parts: Rome (eat), Mumbai (pray) and Bali (where she falls in love).
(TVL107, $15.00) |
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India, A Wounded Civilization
• V.S. Naipaul
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
2003 •
PAPER
• 208 PAGES
Originally published in 1975, this vivid and unsentimental cultural portrait draws together conversations with Indians, news reports, politics and literature, paying particular attention to the Hindu confrontation with the West.
(IDA224, $12.95) |
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Slowly Down the Ganges
• Eric Newby
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2011 •
PAPER
• 384 PAGES
In 1963, the Newbys (Eric and his wife Wanda) set out an a 1,200-mile voyage down the Ganges River. The title could apply as easily to the ruminative attitude the author takes towards his journey as to the many mishaps which bedevil the quest -- invariably occasions for the author to display his wit.
(IDA179, $18.95) |
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A Straw Epic and Other Stories, Rajasthani Tales
• Vijay Dan Detha
• Christi Merrill
• Kailish Kabir
LITERATURE •
2008 •
PAPER
• 200 PAGES
• COMING IN
Only now translated into English (he has been winning awards in India since the 1970s), Detha's rollicking, inventive stories weave Rajasthani folk traditions with social issues. His tales have been adapted for many plays and movies, including Habib Tanvir's Charandas Chor and Amol Palekar's Paheli. A Rajisthani folk rebel and hero, Detha is cofounder with the late Komal Kothari of Rupayan Sansthan (Rajasthan Institute of Folklore) in Borunda, the village which is the source of many of his tales.
(IDA531, $18.95) |
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Mughal India, Splendours of the Peacock Throne
• Valerie Berinstain
• Paul Bahn
HISTORY •
1998 •
PAPER
• 159 PAGES
A pocket-size encyclopedia of knowledge, this slim volume in the acclaimed "New Horizons" series presents the history, culture and splendor of the Mughal Dynasty. With hundreds of archival drawings and paintings, it provides great background to the architecture and Muslim heritage of the splendid courts of 16th-century India.
(IDA50, $15.95) |
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