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HIMALAYAN PASSAGES
Worth Looking For
Bradford Washburn, Mountain Photography
• Bradford Washburn
NATURAL HISTORY •
1999 •
HARD COVER
• 142 PAGES
• COMING IN
This superb collection of black-and-white images, spanning Washburn's sixty-year career showcases his extraordinary, detailed aerial photographs of great mountains from Alaska to the Himalayas. Explorer, mountaineer, pilot, cartographer, photographer, Washburn, who died as age 96 is 2007, is often compared to his good friend Ansel Adams.
(HML82, $60.00) |
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In the Shadow of the Himalayas, A Photographic Record by John Claude White 1883-1908
• Kurt Meyer
• Pamela Deuel Meyer
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
2005 •
HARD COVER
• COMING IN
A collection of 144 remarkable documentary photographs of Tibet, Bhutan, Nepal and Sikkim at the turn of the 20th century. John Claude White (1853-1918), the first British Political Officer to Sikkim, among his many adventures in the Himalyas, was the official photographer of the Younghusband Expedition.
(HML71, $65.00) |
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Concise Flowers of the Himalaya
• Oleg Polunin
• Adam Stainton
FIELD GUIDE •
1998 •
PAPER
• 424 PAGES
• COMING IN
A condensed version of the classic "Flowers of the Himalaya," featuring the same 700 color photographs and 315 drawings but with shorter descriptive information. The field guide covers plants occurring from the Nepal-Sikkim border in the southeast to Kashmir in the northwest. Publsihed by Oxford University Press in India.
(HML17, $25.00) |
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East of Lo Monthang, In the Land of Mustang
• Peter Matthiessen
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
1996 •
PAPER
• 192 PAGES
• COMING IN
Matthiessen, in his usual fine style, delivers a finely honed account of the people, landscapes and culture of remote Mustang, enhanced by Thomas Laird's stunning color photographs.
(NPL17, $25.00) |
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In the Himalayas, Journeys Through Nepal, Tibet, and Bhutan
• Jeremy Bernstein
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
1996 •
PAPER
• 336 PAGES
• COMING IN
A classic book on the people, places and politics of the Himalayan countries by the "New Yorker" writer and mountaineer, in part a journal of a 1983 trek to Mount Everest.
(TBT05, $16.95) |
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