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Kangchenjunga : Guardian of the Eastern Himalaya
Jr. Beasley
Paperback - $41.95
Kangchenjunga is one of the most mysterious mountains in the world. It wasn't scaled until 1955, two years after Everest, and even then the party of British mountaineers who climbed it stopped short of the summit in deference to the wishes of the cho ...
Seduced by the Beauty of the World : Travels in India
Iman Bijleveld
Hardcover - $65.95
For many months over several years, the American novelist Bloch and Dutch anthropologist/photographer Bijleveld traveled through India, collecting experiences and impressions. Here is their travel diary.
Yangtze Remembered : The River Beneath the Lake
Linda Butler
Hardcover - $107.95
" ...Butler is a consummate artisan and the prints are marvels of tonal graduation and detail." -- San Jose Mercury News
" Those who view these images... will be by turns amazed and dejected: no one who loves China and her people will ever forget ...
Vanished Kingdoms : A Woman Explorer in Tibet, China, and Mongolia 1921-1925
Mabel H. Cabot
Hardcover - $57.95
A Testament to the Great Spirit and Success of a Remarkable Woman Explorer
In the early 1920s, the last great age of world explorers, a remarkable young woman, Janet Elliott Wulsin, set out with her husband, Frederick Wulsin, for the far reaches ...
Everest : Mountain Without Mercy
Broughton Coburn
Hardcover - $54.95
David Breashears, the first American to scale Everest twice, was a veteran of nine previous Himalayan filmmaking expeditions when he agreed to lead what became his most challenging filmmaking experience. The expedition was organized by large-format m ...
Tibetan Portrait : The Power of Compassion
Dalai Lama
Hardcover - $43.95
This is a book about a deeply spiritual culture's struggle to survive and maintain compassion in the face of tremendous aggression. The invasion by the Chinese Communists in 1949 led to massive destruction and repression, and to the occupation of Tib ...
Art and Artifice : Japanese Photographs of the Meiji Era
Sebastian Dobson
Paperback - $29.95
Discuss the twin rise of the Japanese photo and tourist industries at the turn of the 20th century.