Nepal Books


High Adventure: The True Story of the First Ascent of EverestHigh Adventure: The True Story of the First Ascent of Everest
Best Price: $11.25
The funny thing is that people probably eschew this book, thinking it's written in "old...
Birds of India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and the MaldivesBirds of India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and the Maldives
Best Price: $22.17
Tr?s bon guide, les dessins sont tr?s corrects, le format est bon pour un guide de terrain. ...
The Rough Guide to NepalThe Rough Guide to Nepal
Best Price: $10.00
great guidebook. Describes in detail the good, the bad and the ugly of Nepal. The language...
Tibetan Diary: From Birth to Death and Beyond in a Himalayan Valley of NepalTibetan Diary: From Birth to Death and Beyond in a Himalayan Valley of Nepal
Best Price: $19.78
In this rich and deeply personal account of life in the highlands of Nepal, Geoff Childs...
The Art and Architecture of the Indian Subcontinent, Second EditionThe Art and Architecture of the Indian Subcontinent, Second Edition
Best Price: $33.00
This book is most appropriate as a companion to other overviews of Indian art. It is useful in...


The Boys of Everest: Chris Bonington and the Tragedy of Climbing's Greatest GenerationThe Boys of Everest: Chris Bonington and the Tragedy of Climbing's Greatest Generation
Best Price: $2.78
If you want to know about the folks that lived to climb and died while doing so, this is the...
The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness Everest: Marking the 50th Anniversary of the Ascent of Everest, 32 Firsthand Accounts of the Most Memorable Climbs (Mammoth Books)The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness Everest: Marking the 50th Anniversary of the Ascent of Everest, 32 Firsthand Accounts of the Most Memorable Climbs (Mammoth Books)
Best Price: $4.72
This was a gift for someone who is enthralled with Everest, although he isn't finished with the...
Love and Death in Kathmandu: A Strange Tale of Royal MurderLove and Death in Kathmandu: A Strange Tale of Royal Murder
Best Price: $5.50
On June 1, 2001, the heir to the Nepalese throne, Crown Prince Dipendra, donned military...
Tantra in PracticeTantra in Practice
Best Price: $20.00
D.G. White, author of the excellent yogic study and adventure story, "The Alchemical...
Ghosts of Everest: The Search for Mallory & IrvineGhosts of Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine
Best Price: $3.89
This is a beautifully and lavishly illustrated, textually rich book. Its pages demand the...


Birds of NepalBirds of Nepal
Best Price: $21.86
This is a great book, with beautiful illustrations (way better than photographs), and just about...
Sir Edmund Hillary and the People of EverestSir Edmund Hillary and the People of Everest
Best Price: $3.45
Sir Edmund Hillary & the People of Everest is a marvelous book about an extraordinary man. ...
Everest: Summit of AchievementEverest: Summit of Achievement
Best Price: $34.99
This book is for anyone who loves Mt Everest and the great mountains of the world. It has some...
Tigers of the Snow: How One Fateful Climb Made The Sherpas Mountaineering LegendsTigers of the Snow: How One Fateful Climb Made The Sherpas Mountaineering Legends
Best Price: $6.23
The true story of the tragedy and survival on one of the world's most dangerous mountains. In...
Annapurna: 50 Years of Expeditions in the Death ZoneAnnapurna: 50 Years of Expeditions in the Death Zone
Best Price: $10.53
This is a book about the first successful ascent of an 8000+ meter peak, Annapurna, possibly the...

Everest : A Mountaineering HistoryEverest : A Mountaineering History
Best Price: $26.94
At first, I was a bit sceptic about this book. I thought it would be another detailed-and-boring...
Climbing Everest: A Meditation on Mountaineering and the Spirit of AdventureClimbing Everest: A Meditation on Mountaineering and the Spirit of Adventure
Best Price: $1.50
(...) It is not hard to understand why someone who made it to the top would want to write about...
Massacre at the Palace: The Doomed Royal Dynasty of NepalMassacre at the Palace: The Doomed Royal Dynasty of Nepal
Best Price: $2.00
The book implicitly seems to think that the son killed their parents over what appears to be a...
Tiger Moon: Tracking the Great Cats in NepalTiger Moon: Tracking the Great Cats in Nepal
Best Price: $12.99
Tiger Moon is the powerful, poetic story of the Sunquists' two years studying tigers in...
EverestEverest
Best Price: $11.88
This is another awesome book to show Mount Everest. If you like nice pictures of...

Spectrum Guide to Nepal (Spectrum Guides)Spectrum Guide to Nepal (Spectrum Guides)
Best Price: $14.64
Everest: The Best Writing and Pictures from Seventy Years of Human EndeavourEverest: The Best Writing and Pictures from Seventy Years of Human Endeavour
Best Price: $84.89
If you are an Everest fan (and I don't just mean a 1996 disaster groupie) this is a must have/...
Fearless on Everest: The Quest for Sandy IrvineFearless on Everest: The Quest for Sandy Irvine
Best Price: $2.92
Frequently overshadowed by his mentor and climbing partner, George Mallory, Sandy Irvine is long...
A Photographic Guide to the Birds of India: And the Indian Subcontinent, Including Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives (Princeton Field Guides)A Photographic Guide to the Birds of India: And the Indian Subcontinent, Including Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives (Princeton Field Guides)
Best Price: $22.58
The book helped me to identify one bird I saw in Pakistan which I tried in other books.
Himalaya: Life on the Edge of the WorldHimalaya: Life on the Edge of the World
Best Price: $17.88
Zurick and Karan's book on the Himalaya is easily the best book in recent years focussing on the...

An  Ordered SocietyAn Ordered Society
Best Price: $30.50
Amussen's vivid account of family and village life in England from the reign of Elizabeth I to...
Imperial Warriors: Britain and the GurkhasImperial Warriors: Britain and the Gurkhas
Gurkhas have been recruited into the British and Indian armies since 1814. In this absorbing...
Wild India: The Wildlife and Scenery of India and NepalWild India: The Wildlife and Scenery of India and Nepal
Best Price: $30.94
To many, India invokes crowded Bombay bazaars and cramped Calcutta quarters more than bucolic...
Journey to Mustang (Bibliotheca Himalayica)Journey to Mustang (Bibliotheca Himalayica)
Best Price: $19.07
In this new reprint of his travelogue of an exploratory trek through Western Nepal in 1952, the...
A History of NepalA History of Nepal
Best Price: $15.05
While John Whelpton's history of Nepal focuses on the period since the overthrow of the Rana...

Blood Against the SnowsBlood Against the Snows
Best Price: $12.49
Something Hidden Behind the Ranges: A Himalayan QuestSomething Hidden Behind the Ranges: A Himalayan Quest
Best Price: $6.95
A wonderful book to take you away from wherever you live and move you to a NEW and wonderful...
Cultural Atlas of India: India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh & Sri Lanka (Cultural Atlas of)Cultural Atlas of India: India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh & Sri Lanka (Cultural Atlas of)
Best Price: $49.50
I was searching for a good book on India, with a historical bent, as a gift for a friend here in...
The Mystery of Mallory & IrvineThe Mystery of Mallory & Irvine
Best Price: $1.25
Several works have currently been released to capitalize on the public fascination surrounding...
The Gurkhas [Osprey Military] [Elite Series]The Gurkhas [Osprey Military] [Elite Series]
Best Price: $51.05
There are few literate people in the world who have not heard of the Gurkhas, the legendary...

Everest (The Mountaineers Anthology Series)Everest (The Mountaineers Anthology Series)
Best Price: $10.00
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first ascent of Everest by Sir Edmund Hillary, The...
Using Math to Climb Mount Everest (Mathworks!)Using Math to Climb Mount Everest (Mathworks!)
Best Price: $8.75
The Rulings of the Night: An Ethnography of Nepalese Shaman Oral TextsThe Rulings of the Night: An Ethnography of Nepalese Shaman Oral Texts
Best Price: $22.04
"The Rulings of the Night offers something new to the anthropology of language and ritual....
Forget Kathmandu: An Elegy for  Democracy, NepalForget Kathmandu: An Elegy for Democracy, Nepal
Manjushree Thapa wrote this account of Nepal's troubled political situation, and its historical...
Sugata Saurabha: An Epic Poem from Nepal on the Life of the Buddha (Harvard Oriental Series)Sugata Saurabha: An Epic Poem from Nepal on the Life of the Buddha (Harvard Oriental Series)
Best Price: $56.19
This poem belongs of the little-known Newari (Nepal Bhasha) language and literature,...

Everest: Eighty Years of Triumph and TragedyEverest: Eighty Years of Triumph and Tragedy
Best Price: $23.84
Much more than a standard coffee-table book with spectacular pictures of the tallest mountain in...
Buddhism Observed: Travellers, Exiles and Tibetan Dharma in Kathmandu (Anthropology of Asia)Buddhism Observed: Travellers, Exiles and Tibetan Dharma in Kathmandu (Anthropology of Asia)
Best Price: $95.68
This is one of the most interesting and insightful books I've read about Nepal and Tibetan...
Love & Death in Kathmandu: A Strange Tale of Royal MurderLove & Death in Kathmandu: A Strange Tale of Royal Murder
Best Price: $37.47
The authors, two award-winning journalists, interview Maoist guerrillas and members of the royal...
Himalayan People's War: Nepal's Maoist RebellionHimalayan People's War: Nepal's Maoist Rebellion
Best Price: $24.95
The eruption of a violent Maoist insurgency in Nepal in the late 1990s was met with bewilderment...
Lost on Everest: The Search for Mallory & IrvineLost on Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine
Best Price: $0.86
This book was a follow-up after reading Ghosts on Everest. It's a good prehistory of Everest,...

My Village in Nepal: Tsiza and the Caravans (A Silver Burdett library selection)My Village in Nepal: Tsiza and the Caravans (A Silver Burdett library selection)Kay Gardeko?: The Royal Massacre in NepalKay Gardeko?: The Royal Massacre in Nepal
Best Price: $12.84
I was extremely disappointed with this book. First of all it's tiny and offers little history...
The Ascent of EverestThe Ascent of Everest
Best Price: $10.97
Now that I found out, I'll answer my own question below for anyone else who might wonder. Ascent...
The Second Death of George Mallory: The Enigma and Spirit of Mount EverestThe Second Death of George Mallory: The Enigma and Spirit of Mount Everest
Best Price: $3.74
Messner's book on Mallory's attempts to climb Everest and his death on the mountain in 1924...
Tantra: Its Origin, Theories, Art and Diffusion From India to Nepal, Tibet, Mongolia, China, Japan and IndonesiaTantra: Its Origin, Theories, Art and Diffusion From India to Nepal, Tibet, Mongolia, China, Japan and Indonesia
Best Price: $32.89
The techniques and rituals of Buddhist and Hindu Tantra are discussed in great detail with an...

Royal Chitwan National Park: Wildlife Heritage of NepalRoyal Chitwan National Park: Wildlife Heritage of Nepal
Best Price: $155.81
Nice book to know about wild Life in Nepal before visiting to that place.By reading this book i...
Modern Nepal: A Political History, 1769-1955. pa.Modern Nepal: A Political History, 1769-1955. pa.
Best Price: $24.90
Combines two classic histories, originally published 1990. Thorough discussion of the royal...
The Kathmadu ValleyThe Kathmadu Valley
Best Price: $49.99
If you have ever had the privilege of visiting Kathmandu, you will appreciate this book very...
Valour: A History of the GurkhasValour: A History of the Gurkhas
Best Price: $8.99
This book about the valour is a very powerful and almost complete stories about the tales of...
History of NepalHistory of Nepal
Best Price: $8.00
ABOUT THE GORKHY DYNASTY OF THE MALLA RAJA AND THE KINGS OF PATAN. IT IS A COMPLETE BOOK OF THE...

Unbecoming Citizens: Culture, Nationhood, and the Flight of Refugees from Bhutan (Oxford India Paperbacks)Unbecoming Citizens: Culture, Nationhood, and the Flight of Refugees from Bhutan (Oxford India Paperbacks)
Best Price: $20.70
During the early 1990s, about 95,000 people arrived in eastern Nepal. They claimed to have come...
    
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