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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)
Travelers' Tales Nepal
Rajendra Khadka
ANTHOLOGY 1997 PAPER 400 PAGES
This anthology of travel writing on Nepal features mostly modern stories by Peter Matthiessen, Jan Morris and other great writers, local and foreign. Covering festivals, art, mountain climbing and other diverse topics, it's an excellent introduction to the country. A chapter on travel in Nepal complements the collection.
(NPL16, $17.95)
Annapurna, The Epic Account of a Himalayan Conquest and its Harrowing Aftermath
Maurice Herzog
EXPLORATION 1997 PAPER 314 PAGES
FAVORITE
This classic account of the first ascent of an 8,000-meter peak was dictated by expedition leader Herzog from his hospital bed in Paris. Herzog and his companions originated the now well established practice of using Sherpas and acclimatizing to higher and higher altitudes at a series of base camps. The extraordinary rescue and agonizing return to civilization is all the more powerful for its matter-of-fact tone. The book also includes a glimpse of Ghurka society in Nepal, circa 1950.
(HML07, $16.95)
The Snow Leopard
Peter Matthiessen
EXPLORATION 2008 PAPER 368 PAGES
FAVORITE
A vivid memoir of a five-week journey through Nepal with George Schaller in search of the magnificent leopard. As perceptive, wonderful and acutely descriptive as any of Matthiessen's writing.
(NPL03, $15.00)
Nepal Map
Nelles
MAP
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)
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)
Lonely Planet Trekking in the Nepal Himalaya
Stan Armington
GUIDEBOOK
This classic guide, now in its eighth edition, is great for both practical trail information and general information on the region.
(NPL23, $19.99)
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 Annapurna Region
Bryn Thomas
GUIDEBOOK
A practical guide to trekking in the region with route maps, village plans and concise information on preparations, what to see and do.
(NPL29, $19.95)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Escape from Kathmandu
Kim Stanley Robinson
LITERATURE
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.
(NPL41, $16.95)
In the Land of No Right Angles
Daphne Beal
LITERATURE
Beal evokes the grit of Kathmandu and the emotional intricacies of trying to good in the world in this tale of a young American student abroard, an older expat and a young village woman whose life they change forever.
(NPL60, $13.95)
Mountains Painted With Turmeric
Lil Bahadur Chettri
LITERATURE
Originally published in 1958, this slim novel beloved by the Nepalese offers readers a rare window onto the daily work, society and personalities of village life in far eastern Nepal.
(NPL58, $22.50)
Wild India, The Wildlife of India and Nepal
Guy Mountefort
Gerald Cubitt
NATURAL HISTORY
An informative introduction to the natural history of the region in a handsome oversize volume. With hundreds of extraordinary photographs of the wildlife and landscapes of the Himalayas, the Indo-Ganges Plain and the Deccan.
(IDA02, $29.95)
A Photographic Guide to the Birds of India and Nepal
B. Grewal
FIELD GUIDE
A slim pocket guide to 252 of the most conspicuous birds of India and Nepal.
(IDA46, $15.95)
Birds of Nepal
Richard Grimmett
Carol Inskipp
Tim Inskipp
FIELD GUIDE
Covering all 760 species of birds occurring in Nepal, this book features 110 color plates. Text and illustrations are integrated on facing pages for easy reference in the field.
(NPL40, $35.00)
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)
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