New York. Facts on File. 1984. Maps, black and white and colour illustrations, 248pp, appendices, bibliography, index, dustjacket spine little sunned, some foxing first leaves, remainder mark lower edge, a good hardback copy. 27 x 20cm. Traces the formation of the Himalayas through to the explorers, scientists and climbers of... More about Mountains of the Gods
Balmain. Pearlfisher. 1994. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, vii + 217pp, glossary, good paperback copy. This book contains the personal accounts of 20 Tibetans who survived the trials and tribulations of growing up outsife their homeland. Their moving stories reveal their humour and compassion, their enduring faith in Tibetan... More about Children of Tibet. An Oral History of the First Tibetans to Grow up in Exile
Balmain. Pearlfisher. 1994. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, vii + 217pp, glossary, very good paperback copy. This book contains the personal accounts of 20 Tibetans who survived the trials and tribulations of growing up outside their homeland. Their moving stories reveal their humour and compassion, their enduring faith in... More about Children of Tibet. An Oral History of the First Tibetans to Grow up in Exile
New Delhi. Light & Life. New Delhi. 1978. Volume 1 only. Folding maps, black and white illustrations, colour frontispiece, 413pp, appendix, index, foxed edges and first and last leaves, dustjacket worn and creased, a sound copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 159281). More about History and Culture of the Himalayan States. Volume 1. Himachal Pradesh Part 1
New Delhi. Light & Life. New Delhi. 1978. Volume 2 only. Folding maps, black and white illustrations, colour frontispiece, 372pp, appendix, index, foxed edges and first and last leaves, dustjacket worn, binding starting following contents page, a sound copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 159282). More about History and Culture of the Himalayan States. Volume 2. Himachal Pradesh Part 2
New Delhi. Light & Life. New Delhi. 1978. Volume 3 only. Folding maps, black and white illustrations, colour frontispiece, 385pp, appendix, index, foxed edges and first and last leaves, dustjacket worn, a sound copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 159283). More about History and Culture of the Himalayan States. Volume 3. Himachal Pradesh Part 3
New Delhi. Light & Life. New Delhi. 1980. Volume 5 only. Folding maps, black and white illustrations, colour frontispiece, 421pp, appendix, index, foxed edges and first and last leaves, dustjacket worn, a sound copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 159284). More about History and Culture of the Himalayan States. Volume 5. Jammu Kingdom Part 2
London. Collins. 1947. 3 coloured maps,illustrated with 3 colour plates by Alezandre Iacovleff and many magnificent black and white photographs showing the various peoples described in the text at work and in their local dress, xviii + 393pp, indices including indexes of plants and mammals and birds, neat signature of... More about The Fire Ox and Other Years
London. Collins. 1947. 3 coloured maps,illustrated with 3 colour plates by Alezandre Iacovleff and many magnificent black and white photographs showing the various peoples described in the text at work and in their local dress, xviii + 393pp, indices including indices of plants and mammals and birds, endpapers patchily browned... More about The Fire Ox and Other Years
Shimla. Directorate of Economics and Statistics. 1981. v + 78pp, foxed covers, pen mark upper cover, a sound copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 159406). More about Statistical Abstract of Lahaul-Spiti District
Wiesbaden. Otto Harrassowitz. 1972. Maps, one folding, tables, graphs, one folding, 506pp, bibliography, index, minor insect damage upper corner first eight leaves, dustjacket worn, small tear head of spine, dustjacket now protected, otherwise good. Text in German. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 52936). More about Nepal. Raum, Mensch und Wirtschaft
Chicago. The Hague. 1978. 567pp, index, foxing upper edge, dustjacekt extremities worn with sunned spine, a good hardback copy otherwise. Papers prepared for the 9th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Chicago, 1973. Section 1. General issues -- section 2. The south Asian perspective -- section 3. The central... More about Himalayan Anthropology: The Indo-Tibetan Interface
London. Hutchinson. 1964. Foreword by Edgar Snow. Endpaper maps, colour and black and white illustrations, 248pp, appendices, index, name obliterated front free endpaper, cloth little flecked in a few places, minor wear dustjacket, now protected. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 66266). More about The Timely Rain. Travels in New Tibet
London. Hutchinson. 1964. Foreword by Edgar Snow. Endpaper maps, colour and black and white illustrations, 248pp, appendices, index, name and address front free endpaper, minor wear dustjacket, now protected. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 66268). More about The Timely Rain. Travels in New Tibet
London. Nelson. 1967. Black and white photographic illustrations, 488pp, appendices including "A Note on the Lepcha Language" and a "Vocabulary of Lepcha Words", index, dustjacket extremities little worn with sunned spine, a good hardback copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 157452). More about Himalayan Village. An Account of the Lepchas of Sikkim
Berkeley. University of California Press. 1990. Map, tables, xx + 214pp, glossary, index, bibliography, notes in text, occasional marking of text in pencil, upper corners bumped, a good copy in dustjacket. "The core of the book contains a historical and comparative analysis of forest-based protests in two distinct state structures... More about The Unquiet Woods. Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance in the Himalaya
London. Joseph. 1989. Maps, colour photographic illustrations throughout, 242pp, index, good copy in dustjacket, oblong octavo. In the course of making a film on the effects of deforestation for a British TV company Mike Harding made several treks through the mountains of northern India and Nepal. (When referring to this... More about Footloose in the Himalaya
![Annapurna. Conquest of the First 8000-metre Peak [26,493 feet]. MAURICE HERZOG](/pictures/thumb/141021.jpg?v=1491516134)
London. Jonathan Cape. 1953. Reprint. Translated from the original French with an introduction by Eric Shipton. Maps, including one folding sheet with both a map and a black and white photographic panorama showing The Great Barrier Seen from Camp II, colour frontis, black and white illustrations, dustjacket very worn. (When... More about Annapurna. Conquest of the First 8000-metre Peak [26,493 feet
London. SAGE Publications. 1996. Maps, black and white illustrations, 254pp, appendices, glossary, bibliography, index, foxed upper edge, dustjacket extremities little worn, review copy bookplate and stamp, a good hardback copy. This work describes how the Bhotiyas have coped with the forces of modernization whilst continuing to maintain their identity, cultural... More about Living on the Move: Bhotiyas of the Kumaon Himalaya
Delhi. Oxford University Press. 1981. Maps, black and white illustrations, 225pp, index, foxing page edges, dustjacket worn and soiled, stamp front free endpaper, a sound hardback copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 158906). More about The Himalaya : Aspects of Change
Macdonald. 1951. Third impression. Black and white and colour illustrations, 238pp, appendix, index, dustjacket worn chipped edges, now protected; some foxing edges, a good hardback otherwise. Account of author's experiences and observations while on a trek to Lhasa. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 161110). More about Out of This World. Across the Himalayas to Tibet
London. Collins. 1962. 319pp, name and address front pastedown, a few marks edges, spine sunned, internally clean and sound. Novel set in the Himalayas. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 76419). More about The Fever Tree
United States: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989. Maps, black and white illustrations, xii + 286pp, appendices, bibliography, index, foxed upper and fore-edge, covers light wear edges, a good paperback copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 159263). More about Himalayan Dialogue. Tibetan Lamas and Gurung Shamans in Nepal
8 black and white photographs of Nepal taken by Professor Basil Johnson, Emeritius Professor of Geography at the Australian National University, Canberra. Each photograph is captioned on the reverse in Professor Johnson's hand. The photographs show: Everest etc; Terraced hill sides, 3 shots of a village near Katmandu one with... More about Nepal - Photographs
Readers Union. 1948. Map, illustrations, viii + 248pp, name front free endpaper, little worn and marked hardback copy, small octavo. Himalayan journeys during the early 1930's. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 13124). More about Peaks and Lamas
