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Essential Books These 5 items are available for $76, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXHML45)		  
Lonely Planet Northeast India  •  Mark Elliott  •  Joseph Bindloss  •  Lindsay Brown
GUIDEBOOK •  2009 •  PAPER  • 376 PAGES
This guide covers, in the hallmark Lonely Planet style, Calcutta, Sikkim, West Bengal and Orissa along with the newly opened Northeast states of Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram and Manipur. With 40 maps, plus a two-color highlights map to help with itinerary design.Covering Sunderbans National Park. (IDA518, $23.99)		   Lonely Planet Northeast India
Touching My Father's Soul, A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest  •  Jamling Tenzing Norgay  •  Broughton Coburn  •  Dalai Lama
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2002 •  PAPER  • 316 PAGES
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. The son of the man who reached the summit of Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary in 1953, Norgay has spent his entire life immersed in the culture, rituals and religion of the Sherpas. (NPL42, $15.99)		   Touching My Father's Soul, A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest
So Close to Heaven, The Vanishing Buddhist Kingdoms of the Himalayas  •  Barbara Crossette
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  1996 •  PAPER  • 297 PAGES • FAVORITE
A "New York Times" Asia correspondent writes of Bhutan and neighboring kingdoms of Ladakh and Sikkim in the Himalayas, strongholds of Tantric Buddhism in an increasingly homogenized world. It's part travelogue and part history -- a personal portrait of the region. (NPL04, $16.00)		   So Close to Heaven, The Vanishing Buddhist Kingdoms of the Himalayas
Essential Tibetan Buddhism  •  Robert Thurman
RELIGION •  1996 •  PAPER  • 317 PAGES
A collection of recently translated texts by 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)		   Essential Tibetan Buddhism
Sikkim Map  •  ITMB
MAP
A full-color detailed map of Sikkim for travelers at a scale of 1:140,000. One Side. 39x26 inches. (HML75, $9.95)		   Sikkim Map



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