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These 4 items are available for $72, including U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXNPL39)

Spectrum Guide to Nepal  •  Camerapix GUIDEBOOK •  2000 •  PAPER  • 364 PAGES A comprehensive guide to the country, its people, history and geography, featuring excellent maps and 200 color photographs. (NPL27, $22.95)
Everest, A Trekker's Guide  •  Kev Reynolds GUIDEBOOK •  2005 •  PAPER  • 255 PAGES A brief pocket guide to seven treks in the Everst region (including one in Tibet) with sketch maps, good general information and a few photographs. (NPL45, $22.95)
Essential Tibetan Buddhism  •  Robert Thurman RELIGION •  1996 •  PAPER  • 317 PAGES A collection of recently translated texts by the foremost Western scholar of Tibetan Buddhism. Thurman has chosen well from the vibrant sacred literature of Tibet, and helpfully includes suggested further reading, explanatory notes and a directory of sacred sites. (TBT15, $14.95)
Mount Everest Base Camp Trekking Map  •  National Geographic 2004 •  MAP A durable, folded topographic map for treks from Lukla through Sagarmatha National Park to Everest Base Camp, at a scale of 1:50,000. It features contour lines, well-marked trails, campsites and other notable features. The reverse features a map of Nepal and an inset of Kathmandu. (HML77, $16.99)

Khumbu Himal (Everest) Map  •  Nelles    •  An trekkers map of the Mt. Everest region. (NPL33, $13.95)
Khumbu Trekking Map  •  Trails Illustrated    •  A map of the Everest trekking region at a scale of 1:125,000 with contours at 100 meter intervals, printed on waterproof, tear-resistant paper. (NPL47, $16.99)
Mt. Everest  •  National Geographic    •  A gloriously detailed, birds-eye view of Everest by the cartographers at National Geographic. (NPL36, $19.99)
Nepal Map  •  Nelles    •  A convenient double-sided map of Nepal at a scale of 1:500,000, with insets of Kathmandu City and Kathmandu Valley. (NPL01, $10.95)
Trekking in Nepal, A Traveler's Guide  •  Sir Edmund Hillary  •  Stephen Bezruchka   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A respected guide covering, in detail, route planning for trekkers, national parks, health, where to go and what to do in Nepal. With an overview of the geography, history, religion and culture of the region. (NPL10, $16.95)
Trekking in the Everest Region  •  Jamie McGuinness   • GUIDEBOOK • COMING IN JANUARY  •  A compact guide to treks in the Everest region featuring route maps, village plans and concise information on preparations. (NPL31, $22.95)
Life and Death on Mt. Everest, Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering  •  Sherry B. Ortner   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A vividly written, scholarly study of the relationship between the Sherpas and the mountaineers who come to "conquer" the Himalayas. (TBT33, $27.95)
Sherpas, Reflections on Change in Himalayan Nepal  •  James Fisher   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A detailed study of the change that mountaineering brought to Sherpa society. (NPL13, $26.95)
The Violet Shyness of Their Eyes, Notes from Nepal  •  Barbara J. Scot   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A heartfelt portrait of the Nepalese people and culture, resulting from the author's year teaching in Nepal. An excellent memoirist, Scot combines personal observation, thoughtful commentary and warmth. (HML14, $16.95)
Annapurna, The Epic Account of a Himalayan Conquest and its Harrowing Aftermath  •  Maurice Herzog   • EXPLORATION • FAVORITE  •  This classic account of the first ascent of an 8,000-meter peak -- and their extraordinary rescue -- was dictated by expedition leader Herzog from his hospital bed in Paris. (HML07, $16.95)
Eric Shipton, The Six Mountain Travel Books  •  Eric Shipton   • EXPLORATION  •  Shipton's extraordinary adventures in the mountains of the Himalayas, East Africa, Central Asia and Patagonia. (EXP12, $38.00)
Everest  •  David Breashears   • EXPLORATION  •  The stunning IMAX film of an Everest expedition by David Breashears and his team, filmed at the same time as the 1996 disaster recounted in John Krakauer's "Into Thin Air." DVD format. (HML67, $19.99)
Everest, A Mountaineering History  •  Walter Unsworth   • EXPLORATION  •  A classic history of mountaineering, updated through 1998 for this third edition. (NPL38, $45.00)
Ghosts of Everest, The Search for Mallory & Irvine  •  Jochen Hemmleb  •  Eric Simonson  •  Larry Johnson   • EXPLORATION  •  You may have seen the pictures. This is the illustrated, comprehensive account of the successful expedition to determine the fate of George Mallory, who disappeared on Mt. Everest in 1924. (HML39, $24.95)
High Adventure  •  Sir Edmund Hillary   • EXPLORATION  •  A classic of 20th-century mountaineering, this 50th anniversary edition of young Hillary's personal account of his historic ascent of Everest, written the heady days after the celebrated climb, includes a new preface by the author. With black-and-white photos. Hillary modestly attributes his success to "a goodly share of imagination and plenty of energy." (NPL48, $19.95)
Into Thin Air, A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster  •  Jon Krakauer   • EXPLORATION  •  In this bestseller, climber and journalist Krakauer reconstructs a minute-by-minute account of what went wrong on the great mountain in 1996. (HML13, $14.95)
No Shortcuts to the Top, Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks  •  Ed Viesturs   • EXPLORATION  •  An exhilarating account of mountaineering by the first American to scale the world's 14 peaks that over 8,000 meters high, without the aid of bottled oxygen. (EXP45, $14.00)
The Climb, Tragic Ambitions on Everest  •  Anatoli Boukreev   • EXPLORATION  •  An eyewitness account of the 1996 tragedy by Russian mountaineer Anatoli Boukreev. (HML29, $7.99)
The Crystal Horizon  •  Reinhold Messner  •  Jill Neate  •  Audrey Salkeld   • EXPLORATION  •  Messner's account of the first successful solo ascent of Everest, which he accomplished without the aid of supplemental oxygen in 1980. (HML69, $24.95)
The Snow Leopard  •  Peter Matthiessen   • EXPLORATION • FAVORITE  •  The most perceptive, acutely observed and personal of all his books, Peter Matthiessen's vivid account of a five-week journey 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, $15.00)
Touching My Father's Soul, A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest  •  Jamling Tenzing Norgay  •  Broughton Coburn  •  Dalai Lama   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  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. (NPL42, $15.95)
Himalayan Voices, An Introduction to Modern Nepali Literature  •  Michael Hutt   • ANTHOLOGY  •  A collection of 20th-century Nepali poetry and short fiction, much of it translated into English for the first time. This anthology offers insight into Nepal's literary traditions, society and culture. (HML35, $26.95)
Travelers' Tales Nepal  •  Rajendra Khadka   • ANTHOLOGY  •  This anthology of travel writing on Nepal features mostly modern stories by Peter Matthiessen, Jan Morris and other great writers, local and foreign. (NPL16, $17.95)
The Ascent of Rum Doodle  •  W. E. Bowman  •  Bill Bryson   • LITERATURE  •  Firmly in the school of offhand, bumbling British exploration, this book is hardly handicapped by the fact that its author had never been near the Himalayas. It's a spoof of British mountaineering. Very funny indeed. (HML55, $13.99)
Photographic Guide to Birds of the Himalayas  •  B. Grewal   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A pocket guide to 250 birds found from the foothills up to high elevations ranging from the Hindu Kush and Kashmir to Arunachal Pradesh in the Eastern Himalayas. With brief descriptive information, maps and 260 full-color illustrations. (HML31, $15.95)
Surviving Everest (DVD)  •  National Geographic    •  A celebration of Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay by National Geographic. The documentary details the many triumphs and disasters that have occurred on Mt. Everest, including original 1953 footage and a 1984 tribute. (HML58, $24.95)