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INDIA: THE CHADAR TREK
Worth Looking For
Crafts of Kasmir, Jammu & Ladakh
• Jaya Jaitly
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
1990 •
HARD COVER
• 227 PAGES
• COMING IN
A thorough introduction to the diversity of crafts, people and societies of High Asia, this gorgeous overview features 170 full-color illustrations.
(HML27, $45.00) |
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Ladakh, Crossroads of High Asia
• Janet Rizvi
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
1998 •
PAPER
• 328 PAGES
An illustrated overview of the culture and history of remote Ladakh.
(HML26, $35.00) |
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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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Trans-Himalayan Caravans, Merchant Princes and Peasant Traders in Ladakh
• Janet Rizvi
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
2004 •
PAPER
• 388 PAGES
• COMING IN
Rizvi documents the complex pattern of long distance trade and its history in High Asia, drawing on archives, historical sources and many, personal interviews with modern traders to full paint a picture of Ladakh, once a major crossroads of the Silk Road.
(HML86, $29.95) |
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