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| ISBN: 8177691266 |
| Title: A House In Kathmandu |
| Author: Harold James |
| Edition Year: 1998 |
| Cover: Paperback |
| Subject: Travel and Treks |
| Language: English |
| Abstract: When Harold James first saw the Himalayas, he fell in love with Nepal and its people and dreamed of one day building a house in Kathmandu. |
| Remarks: B&W Photographs |
| Edition: Reprint |
| Pages: 292 |
| Size(mm): 140 X 215 |
| Weight(grams): 350 |
| Price: US$ 5.50 |
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| ISBN: 8177690817 |
| Title: Among The Tibetans |
| Author: Isabella Bird Bishop |
| Edition Year: 2004 |
| Cover: Paperback |
| Subject: Travel and Treks |
| Language: English |
| Abstract: In the late 1800s when most women were expected to stay at home and abide by strict Victorian standards, a small group of amazing women struck out for an adventurous life of travel in distant places.Some of these women travelled to that ultimate in mysterious, remote destinations Tibet. There was Nina Mazuchelli, Annie Taylor, Fanny Bullock Workman and Alexandra DavidNeel (whose book, Tibetan Journey, is available through Pilgrims Book House). And there was Isabella Bird Bishop, who was almost 60 years old when she went to Tibet. A near invalid when back home, she thrived on her adventurous life. This book is the record of her great Tibetan adventure. |
| Remarks: B&W Drawings |
| Edition: Reprint |
| Pages: 159 |
| Size(mm): 120 X 185 |
| Weight(grams): 150 |
| Price: US$ 3.00 |
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| ISBN: 8177693913 |
| Title: Charo Dham Avam Anya Yatra Vritant |
| Author: Vanshidhar Tripathi |
| Edition Year: 2006 |
| Cover: Paperback |
| Subject: Travel and Treks |
| Language: Hindi |
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| Edition: Reprint |
| Pages: 304 |
| Size(mm): 140 X 215 |
| Weight(grams): 500 |
| Price: US$ 2.97 |
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| ISBN: 8173031053 |
| Title: Early Jesuit Travellers in Central Asia |
| Author: C. Wessels |
| Edition Year: 1998 |
| Cover: Paperback |
| Subject: Travel and Treks |
| Language: English |
| Abstract: This unusual book gives an insight into the often forgotten pioneering travel and discovery by Jesuit missionaries in Asia, especially Tibet. This book is a compilation of geographical, historical and cultural information collected by the Jesuits during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Each chapter details fascinating first impressions of people and things unseen by any Europeans before. A valuable source of information for anyone interested in the early exploration of the Himalayan region. |
| Remarks: Foldout map |
| Edition: Reprint |
| Pages: 233 |
| Size(mm): 140 X 215 |
| Weight(grams): 260 |
| Price: US$ 5.50 |
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| ISBN: 8176240044 |
| Title: Intimate Glimpses of Mysterious Tibet & Neighbouring Countries |
| Author: G.E.O. Knight |
| Edition Year: 1997 |
| Cover: Paperback |
| Subject: Travel and Treks |
| Language: English |
| Abstract: While riding on a bus in London in 1921, the author came upon the following paragraph in a discarded magazine What a splendid opportunity now exists for securing the first motion pictures of Lhasa, the Forbidden City of Tibet.This chance occurrence inspired a merry little jaunt for five friends to visit Tibet. Not for a moment did they consider the many political and physical obstacles that stood in their way. Their view was If the Governments of India and Tibet refused to grant us permission to proceed to Lhasa in a gentlemanly way, there was an alternative course of action. Remarkably, they finally reached Lhasa and secured possession of their trophy of that remote city. |
| Remarks: B&W Drawings |
| Edition: Reprint |
| Pages: 79 |
| Size(mm): 140 X 215 |
| Weight(grams): 120 |
| Price: US$ 5.00 |
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| ISBN: 8176240125 |
| Title: Picturesque Nepal |
| Author: Percy Brown |
| Edition Year: 1997 |
| Cover: Paperback |
| Subject: Travel and Treks |
| Language: English |
| Abstract: Percy Smith, of the Indian Educational Service and an art specialist, created this extensive photographic record of the then littleknown state of Nepal during his extended visit there in about 1910. He documents the wonderful art and craft of the Newars, the inhabitants of the Kathmandu Valley. An interesting period piece. |
| Edition: Reprint |
| Pages: 205 |
| Size(mm): 135 X 215 |
| Weight(grams): 500 |
| Price: US$ 14.50 |
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| ISBN: 8176240443 |
| Title: The Beauty Of High Hills |
| Author: Barbara Bingley |
| Edition Year: 1998 |
| Cover: Paperback |
| Subject: Travel and Treks |
| Language: English |
| Abstract: Sikkim, Bhutan and Tibet, these are the lands of fiery forests, strange and beautiful lands inhabited by kindly talkative folk, who will, on occasion, tell a traveler tales of the miraculous. These stories all recount the prowess of the Lord Buddha, who, when he rose from his Lotus throne in the Thunderbolt in order to Subdue the evil who dwelt there.These are the nursery tales of the Land of snow. They have been repeated again and again by innumerable storytellers, each of whom presented them in his own fashion. In this little book Barbara Bingley has sought not so much to retell old tales, as to recount the manner in which she heard their, and there by reveal something of the spirit of the mountain people, who possess both the simplicity of children and the grave wisdom of ancient sages. |
| Remarks: B&W Wood Engravings |
| Edition: Reprint |
| Pages: 82 |
| Size(mm): 140 X 215 |
| Weight(grams): 150 |
| Price: US$ 2.95 |
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| ISBN: 817303026X |
| Title: The Heart Of A Continent : A Narrative of travels in Manchuria, Across the Gobi Desert, through The Himalayas, The Pamirs, and Chitral, 1884-1894 |
| Author: Caption C F E.Younghusband |
| Edition Year: 1994 |
| Cover: Hardback |
| Subject: Travel and Treks |
| Language: English |
| Abstract: Sir Francis Younghusband is universally known for his forcible entry into Lhasa in 1902. But his adventures commenced much earlier. After mountaineering in Manchuria, he began in 1887 his exciting journey through the heart of Asia, across the Gobi Desert and Chinese Turkestan to Kashgar and Yarkand, and then across the Himalayas to Srinagar. He was sent by the British to investigate Hunza raids on Kirghiz territory he went on his famous expedition to the Pamirs, only to be summarily ordered out by the Russians and in 1898 he was appointed political agent in the disturbed Chitral (in presentday Pakistan). Interesting and valuable information Nation. |
| Edition: Reprint |
| Pages: 409 |
| Size(mm): 160 X 240 |
| Weight(grams): 1100 |
| Price: US$ 24.00 |
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| ISBN: 8177690043 |
| Title: The Land of the Lamas |
| Author: WW Rockhill |
| Edition Year: 2000 |
| Cover: Paperback |
| Subject: Travel and Treks |
| Language: English |
| Abstract: This is the tale of a long and arduous journey through the wild backlands of China, Mongolia and Tibet in the years 1888-89.Rockhill was an American diplomat in China who was fluent in Chinese and Tibetan. In 1888 he set out on an attempt to reach the attempt to reach the forbidden capital of Lhasa. He chose to enter Tibet via the remote northeast which in his opinion offered the best chance of travelling undetected. |
| Remarks: B&W Photographs, Double page maps, Supplementry tables |
| Edition: First |
| Pages: 399 |
| Size(mm): 140 X 215 |
| Weight(grams): 650 |
| Price: US$ 4.75 |
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| ISBN: 8173031096 |
| Title: The Wildest Dreams of Kew A Profile of Nepal |
| Author: Jeremy Bernstein |
| Edition Year: 1998 |
| Cover: Paperback |
| Subject: Travel and Treks |
| Language: English |
| Abstract: In this impressionistic narrative of the history, land and people of Nepal, the author takes the reader into an extremely vivid natural environment, frequently hostile, surrounded by mountains, jungles, wild animals, ofter plagues, without doctors to cure the sick, without electric lights to illuminate the night, where every object of nature becomes charged with mystical powers, and the Himalayan snows floating above the Nepalese countryside in serene, remote grandeur become the abodes of gods. |
| Remarks: Colour and B&W Photographs B&W Photos and Colour inkwash drawings & map |
| Edition: Reprint |
| Pages: 186 |
| Size(mm): 155 X 230 |
| Weight(grams): 300 |
| Price: US$ 6.00 |
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| ISBN: 8173030073 |
| Title: Through Asia (2 Volumes Set) |
| Author: Sven Hedin |
| Edition Year: 1993 |
| Cover: Hardback |
| Subject: Travel and Treks |
| Language: English |
| Abstract: Scientist and adventurer, Sven Hedin, in 1893 started out on another bold expedition into Central Asia to explore the Gobi Desert and the endless wastes of the Tibetan plateau. His aim was scientific research in topology, geology, anthropology, archaeology, meteorology and hydrology. Here is a graphic description of spectacular scenery and remote peoples, of constant adventures and dangers faced. |
| Remarks: B&W Photograph and Drawings, Foldout maps |
| Edition: Reprint |
| Pages: 1278 |
| Size(mm): 145 X 225 |
| Weight(grams): 1800 |
| Price: US$ 58.50 |
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| ISBN: 817769054X |
| Title: Travels of a Consular Officer in Eastern Tibet Together with a history of the relations between China, Tibet and India |
| Author: Eric Teichman |
| Edition Year: 2000 |
| Cover: Paperback |
| Subject: Travel and Treks |
| Language: English |
| Abstract: Should the vast Tibetan plateau be part of China?
Does the fact that Tibet retains a separate identity in both religion and culture mean it should be independent of China?
Are the Chinese correct to believe that historically Tibet has always been part of China?
All these questions are examined in this fascinating and informative book about the life and political times in the Tibet of 1900 to the end of World War I.
Today, some seventy years after EricTeichman presented this volume on the political problems besetting China and Tibet, the matter of the Tibetan people’s aspirations still remains inconclusive. This book makes for thought-provoking reading
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| Remarks: B&W Photographs |
| Edition: First |
| Pages: 248 |
| Size(mm): 138 X 217 |
| Weight(grams): 550 |
| Price: US$ 10.95 |
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| ISBN: 8177694219 |
| Title: Windblown Clouds |
| Author: Thomas K. Shor |
| Edition Year: 2006 |
| Cover: Paperback |
| Subject: Travel and Treks |
| Language: English |
| Abstract: “I think you should come with me to India.”Thus begins this tale of the author when he was a young man and happened to sit next to Ed Spencer, a brilliant seventy-year-old ex-Harvard professor, turned wandering holy man, who makes this offer within an hour of their meeting on a Greek ferry. Though unsure whether the old man is some kind of a bum or a realized being or both, he agrees to go with this enigmatic stranger whose credo is, “Take the money out of your pocket and put yourself in the han |
| Edition: First |
| Pages: 254 |
| Size(mm): 140 X 215 |
| Weight(grams): 200 |
| Price: US$ 5.00 |
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