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Essential Books These 5 items are available for $84, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXNPL53)		  
Spectrum Guide to Nepal  •  Camerapix
GUIDEBOOK •  2000 •  PAPER  • 364 PAGES
A comprehensive guide to the country, its people, history, culture and geography, featuring excellent maps and 200 color photographs. (NPL27, $22.95)		   Spectrum Guide to Nepal
Everest, A Trekker's Guide  •  Kev Reynolds
GUIDEBOOK •  2005 •  PAPER  • 255 PAGES
A brief pocket guide to seven treks in the Everest region (including one in Tibet) with sketch maps, good general information and a few photographs. (NPL45, $22.95)		   Everest, A Trekker's Guide
The Snow Leopard  •  Peter Matthiessen
EXPLORATION •  2008 •  PAPER  • 368 PAGES • FAVORITE
The most perceptive, acutely observed and personal of all his books, Matthiessen's account of a five-week journey through Nepal with George Schaller combines their quest for the magnificent cat with a moving introduction to Buddhism and the people and culture of the Himalayas. (NPL03, $16.00)		   The Snow Leopard
Annapurna, The Epic Account of a Himalayan Conquest and its Harrowing Aftermath  •  Maurice Herzog
EXPLORATION •  2010 •  PAPER  • 256 PAGES • FAVORITE
This new edition of Maurice Herzog's classic, with a new forward by Conrad Anker, is published in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the first ascent of Annapurna on June 3, 2010. Expedition leader Herzog dictated this masterful account of the first-ever ascent of an 8,000-meter peak and extraordinary rescue from his hospital bed in Paris. The American Women's Himalayan Expedition, led by Arlene Blum, became the first American team to summit this 10th highest mountain in 1978, and no team repeated Herzog's feat until 1970. Now 101 years old, Herzog, who was French Minister of Youth and Sport in the 1960s and the former mayor of Chamonix, recovered nicely! (HML07, $16.95)		   Annapurna, The Epic Account of a Himalayan Conquest and its Harrowing Aftermath
Everest Base Camp, Nepal Map  •  National Geographic
2004 •  MAP
A durable, folded topographic map for treks from Lukla through Sagarmatha National Park to Everest Base Camp, at a scale of 1:50,000. It features contour lines, well-marked trails, campsites and other notable features. The reverse features a map of Nepal and an inset of Kathmandu. Two Sides. 24x36 inches. (HML77, $11.95)		   Everest Base Camp, Nepal Map



Also Recommended

Khumbu Trekking Map  •  Trails Illustrated    •  This National Geographic map of Sargmatha National Park and Everest (1:125,000) includes 100-meter contour lines, index, a city map of Kathmandu and overview map of Nepal. (NPL47, $11.99)
 		  
Mt. Everest  •  National Geographic    •  A gloriously detailed, birds-eye view of Everest by the cartographers at National Geographic. (NPL36, $19.99)
 		  
Trekking in the Everest Region  •  Jamie McGuinness   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A compact guide to treks in the Everest region featuring route maps, village plans and concise information on preparations. Fifth Edition (NPL31, $22.95)
 		  
Trekking Nepal, A Traveler's Guide  •  Stephen Bezruchka   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A respected guide covering route planning, 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, $29.95)
 		  
Essential Tibetan Buddhism  •  Robert Thurman   • RELIGION  •  The foremost Western scholar of Tibetan Buddhism, Thurman has chosen well from that tradition's sacred literature and helpfully includes suggested further reading, explanatory notes and a directory of sacred sites. (TBT15, $14.99)
 		  
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, $29.95)
 		  
Sherpas, Reflections on Change in Himalayan Nepal  •  James Fisher   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A detailed study of the change that mountaineering brought to Sherpa society. (NPL13, $27.95)
 		  
The Violet Shyness of Their Eyes  •  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)
 		  
Everest  •  David Breashears   • EXPLORATION  •  The stunning IMAX film of an Everest expedition by David Breashears and his team, filmed at the same time as the 1996 disaster recounted in John Krakauer's "Into Thin Air." DVD format. (HML67, $19.99)
 		  
Everest, The Mountaineers Anthology IV  •  Peter Potterfield   • EXPLORATION  •  A collection of eyewitness accounts. (NPL49, $16.95)
 		  
High Adventure  •  Sir Edmund Hillary   • EXPLORATION  •  A classic of 20th-century mountaineering, this 50th anniversary edition of young Hillary's personal account of his historic ascent of Everest, written the heady days after the celebrated climb, includes a new preface by the author. With black-and-white photos. Hillary modestly attributes his success to "a goodly share of imagination and plenty of energy." (NPL48, $19.95)
 		  
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, $15.00)
 		  
The Climb, Tragic Ambitions on Everest  •  Anatoli Boukreev   • EXPLORATION  •  An eyewitness account of the 1996 tragedy by Russian mountaineer Anatoli Boukreev. (HML29, $7.99)
 		  
The Crystal Horizon  •  Reinhold Messner  •  Jill Neate  •  Audrey Salkeld   • EXPLORATION  •  Messner's account of the first successful solo ascent of Everest, which he accomplished without the aid of supplemental oxygen in 1980. (HML69, $29.95)
 		  
Touching My Father's Soul, A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest  •  Jamling Tenzing Norgay  •  Broughton Coburn  •  Dalai Lama   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A personal account of the business of Everest, the 1996 IMAX Expedition and, most significantly, of a son who is grappling with the legacy of a famous father. (NPL42, $15.99)
 		  
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, $18.99)
 		  
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, $28.95)
 		  
Photographic Guide to Birds of the Himalayas  •  Bikram 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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