Murphy affectionately portrays the people of Nepal, the customs of an ancient, complex civilization and the country's natural grandeur and beauty in these tales of hard travel by mostly unconventional transport, Originally published in 1967. Having settled in a village in the Pokhara Valley to work at a Tibetan refugee camp, she makes her home in a tiny, vermin-infested room over a stall in the bazaar.  (NPL05, $29.95)