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FATHER'S DAY

City of Fortune, How Venice Ruled the Seas

Roger Crowley

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PROVENCE & THE COTE D'AZUR

A Pig in Provence: Good Food and Simple Pleasures in the South of France

Georgeanne Brennan

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OUR FAVORITES

Arctic Dreams

Barry Lopez

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PENGUIN CLASSICS

The Log from the Sea of Cortez

John Steinbeck

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ACROSS LADAKH'S HIMALAYAS

Worth Looking For

Crafts of Kasmir, Jammu & Ladakh


by Jaya Jaitly

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 1990
  • HARD COVER
  • 227 PAGES
  • OUT OF PRINT

A gorgeous introduction to the diversity of crafts, people and societies of High Asia. (HML27, $45.00)

Ladakh, Crossroads of High Asia


by Janet Rizvi

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 1998
  • PAPER
  • 328 PAGES

The standard, authoritative survey of the culture, society and economy of remote Ladakh. (HML26, $35.00)

Concise Flowers of the Himalaya

Concise Flowers of the Himalaya


by Oleg Polunin | Adam Stainton

  • FIELD GUIDE
  • 1998
  • PAPER
  • 424 PAGES
  • OUT OF PRINT

A condensed version of the classic Flowers of the Himalayas featuring the same 700 color photographs and 315 line drawings but with shorter descriptive information. (HML17, $25.00)

Trans-Himalayan Caravans, Merchant Princes and Peasant Traders in Ladakh

Trans-Himalayan Caravans, Merchant Princes and Peasant Traders in Ladakh


by Janet Rizvi

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 2004
  • PAPER
  • 388 PAGES
  • OUT OF PRINT

Rizvi draws on archives, historical sources and personal interviews with modern traders in this colorful account of this history of trade in High Asia from the seventh to the twentieth centuries. (HML86, $29.95)

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