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INDIA'S GARHWAL HIMALAYA
Worth Looking For
Mahabharata
• Peter Brook
RELIGION •
1989 •
DVD
• COMING IN
Peter Brook's masterpiece adapted from the great Indian epic. Starring an international cast, the elaborate, stylized production, which runs more than five hours, conveys the power of the myths, fables and legends of the ancient Sanskrit original.
(IDA358, $39.99) |
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Nanda Devi, Exploration and Ascent
• Eric Shipton
• H. W. Tilman
EXPLORATION •
2000 •
PAPER
• 288 PAGES
• COMING IN
A single-volume edition of two classics of mountaineering literature: Eric Shipton's "Nanda Devi" and H.W. Tilman's "Ascent of Nanda Devi." Shipton cracked the mystery of how to climb the peak in the early 1930s, and Tilman used Shipton's findings to make the first ascent of Nanda Devi in 1936 (while Shipton was climbing Everest). The two men, friends and frequent climbing partners, wrote a slew of books between them, most available in omnibus editions by the same publisher (EXP13, EXP12).
(HML54, $18.95) |
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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.
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