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High 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 Maldives Best Price: $22.17 Tr?s bon guide, les dessins sont tr?s corrects, le format est bon pour un guide de terrain.
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The 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) 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 Murder Best Price: $5.50 On June 1, 2001, the heir to the Nepalese throne, Crown Prince Dipendra, donned military... | Tantra 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 & Irvine Best Price: $3.89 This is a beautifully and lavishly illustrated, textually rich book. Its pages demand the... |
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Birds 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 Everest Best Price: $3.45 Sir Edmund Hillary & the People of Everest is a marvelous book about an extraordinary man. ... | Everest: 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 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 Zone Best Price: $10.53 This is a book about the first successful ascent of an 8000+ meter peak, Annapurna, possibly the... |
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Everest : 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 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 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 Nepal Best Price: $12.99 Tiger Moon is the powerful, poetic story of the Sunquists' two years studying tigers in... | Everest Best Price: $11.88 This is another awesome book to show Mount Everest. If you like nice pictures of... |
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Spectrum Guide to Nepal (Spectrum Guides) Best Price: $14.64 | Everest: 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 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) 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 World Best Price: $17.88 Zurick and Karan's book on the Himalaya is easily the best book in recent years focussing on the... |
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An 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 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 Nepal Best Price: $30.94 To many, India invokes crowded Bombay bazaars and cramped Calcutta quarters more than bucolic... | 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 Nepal Best Price: $15.05 While John Whelpton's history of Nepal focuses on the period since the overthrow of the Rana... |
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Blood Against the Snows Best Price: $12.49 | Something 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) 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 & Irvine Best Price: $1.25 Several works have currently been released to capitalize on the public fascination surrounding... | 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... |
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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!) Best Price: $8.75 | The 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, 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) Best Price: $56.19 This poem belongs of the little-known Newari (Nepal Bhasha) language and literature,... |
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Everest: 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) 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 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 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 & Irvine Best Price: $0.86 This book was a follow-up after reading Ghosts on Everest. It's a good prehistory of Everest,... |
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My Village in Nepal: Tsiza and the Caravans (A Silver Burdett library selection) | Kay 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 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 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 Indonesia Best Price: $32.89 The techniques and rituals of Buddhist and Hindu Tantra are discussed in great detail with an... |
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Royal 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. Best Price: $24.90 Combines two classic histories, originally published 1990. Thorough discussion of the royal... | The 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 Gurkhas Best Price: $8.99 This book about the valour is a very powerful and almost complete stories about the tales of... | History 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... |
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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... | | | | |