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| IN THIS ISSUE (1) Welcome (2) Special Edition Now Available (3) Fantastic Fiction (4) New Releases (5) Quotable Quotes (6) Rare Books (7) Free Quarterly Newsletter: Pilgrims News (8) Publishing Opportunities (9) Subscription Information (10) Contact Details _____________________________ (1) WELCOME _____________________________ We love reading tales of the great exploration and travel, especially those set in Asia. And we like to share some of our discoveries with our readers. This month we recommend: Land of the Lamas (a tale of intrepid travel in Tibet in the 1890s) and Jehol: City of Emperors (the discovery of a fabled city in China gradually sinking into ruin). See the "New Releases" section below. India (and South Asia in general) is experiencing a huge popularity worldwide as people discover how excellent the writers from this part of the world truly are. Have you noticed how many South Asians have won the Booker Prize? This month we recommend several great Indian fiction books -- some serious ones, some for relaxation. See the "Fantastic Fiction" section below. Thanks to everyone who joined in our first contest last month. The prizes are now on their way to the lucky winners. Why don't you join in the December contest? SOMEONE has to win ... and could easily be you! Please log on to our website http://pilgrimsbooks.com for more information. _____________________________ (2) SPECIAL EDITION NOW AVAILABLE _____________________________ Good news for residents of the Indian subcontinent! The Nepali/Indian Edition of South Asia Book World is now available. This with feature selected new titles with prices in Nepali and Indian rupees as well as special, discounted shipping rates for the region. To change your subscription to the Nepali/Indian Edition, click on mailto:subscribesabwnepal@johnsnepal.wlink.com.np and enter SUBSCRIBE in the subject field. _____________________________ (3) FANTASTIC FICTION _____________________________ The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy Indian Ink, New Delhi, 1997 Winner of the 1997 Booker Prize. "A masterpiece, utterly exceptional in every way." --Harpers and Queen "A banquet for all the senses we bring to reading." --Newsweek "A sad story, told very hilariously, very tenderly and very craftily." --The Pioneer "It is rare to find a book that so effectively cuts through the clothes of nationality, caste and religion to reveal the bare bones of humanity." --Daily Telegraph 340 pages. Paperback. ISBN 8186939024 Price: $US5.75 Shipping -Sea/Air: $3.00/$8.00 The Penguin Book of Indian Ghost Stories Edited by Ruskin Bond Penguin Books, New Delhi, 1993 Although a prolific writer, this will be the first anthology Ruskin Bond will have edited. From Conan Doyle and Rudyard Kipling to Satyajit Ray and R.K. Narayan, this volume combines a collection of spine-chilling (and sometimes humorous!) tales of the supernatural from India. 182 pages. Paperback. ISBN 0140178325 Price: $US3.50 Shipping - Sea/Air: $1.00/$2.50 Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai Rupa and Co., Delhi, 2000 "If we could have chosen a runner-up, we would undoubtedly have given the runner-up award to Anita Desai and Fasting, Feasting, a most beautiful novel, very moving, very funny, terribly illustrative of what happens to women in different parts of the world." --Gerald Kaufman, Chairman of the Booker Prize, 1999. "This is a quiet, low-key novel, notable for its vignettes [which] are so sharp, so rich in detail, that the book packs a real polemic punch. Fasting, Feasting is a fine showcase for the delicate, distinctive skills of Anita Desai." --Sunday Telegraph 228 pages. Paperback. ISBN 0099289636 Price: $US4.50 Shipping - Sea/Air: $1.00/$3.00 The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes By Jamyang Norbu Harper Collins Publishers, New Delhi, 1999 Adventures of the great detective in India and Tibet, based on the reminiscences of Hurree Chunder, Mookerjee C.I.E., F.R.S., F.R.G.S., RaiBahadur. "Jamyang Norbu is renowned as one of the best Tibetan writers at work today, principally on account of his polemic essays. In The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes he has produced a scintillating, learned and extremely skilful work of fiction, revealing the secret of Holmes' missing years in India and Tibet. Read this, and your view of the great detective will never be the same again." --Patrick French, author of Younghusband and Liberty or Death. 287 pages. Hardcover. Black & white map and sketches. ISBN 8172233698 Price: $US6.75 Shipping: Sea/Air $2.50/$7.00 >>>>> Like to read some of these books? We can ship them to you quickly! To order, visit: http://www.pilgrimsbooks.com/ordering.html _____________________________ (4) NEW RELEASES _____________________________ *** Jehol: City of Emperors by Sven Hedin. Just north of the Great Wall of China lies the city of Jehol (or Cheng-te), which was once the magnificent summer capital of the Manchu emperors. In the eighteenth century, Jehol was at its zenith of power and influence. During this period the Emperor Ch'ien Lung (1736-96) built many magnificent monuments, including the Potala, built in the style of the style of the Potala in Lhasa, and the Hsin Kung temple monastery. Explorer Sven Hedin visited this city in 1930 and found Jehol and its monuments fast crumbling into ruin. In this book Hedin documents the city in detail, mindful that within a few years his descriptions and photographs could well be all that would remain of this magic city. 278 pages. Paperback. ISBN: 81-7769-009-4 Price: $US 9.00 Shipping - Sea/Air: $3.00/$8.50 For more details and to order visit: http://www.pilgrimsbooks.com/travel.html *** The Land of the Lamas by William Woodville Rockhill Notes of a journey through China, Mongolia and Tibet in the 1890s. Rockhill's fame rests on his diplomatic career, but he was first and always a dedicated, pioneering, and prolific Orientalist. Whether he was uncovering and translating ancient Chinese and Tibetan classics or exploring remote parts of China and Tibet between 1888 and 1892, with amazing indifference to his personal safety, Rockhill was driven by the late nineteenth-century search for "objective," scientific truth and the love of knowledge for its own sake. Rockhill was one of a handful of Westerners to penetrate Tibet and Mongolia, and in 1908 he was honored by having several long conversations with the Dalai Lama, who sought the American's advice on his delicate relationship with the Manchu Court and Tibet's future. Over a period of thirty years Rockhill produced dozens of significant books, articles, and papers that vividly depicted the physical landscape and sought to understand Asian societies. -- American National Biography (Vol. 18) 399 pages. Paperback. ISBN: 81-7769-004-3 Price: $US 9.25 Shipping - Sea/Air: $3.50/$10.00 For more details and to order visit: http://www.pilgrimsbooks.com/travel_accounts_tibet.html _____________________________ (5) QUOTABLE QUOTES _____________________________ "Thou hast made me known to friends whom I knew not. Thou hast given me seats in homes not my own. Thou hast brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger." -- Marcus Aurelius Roman emperor, 121-180, discussing books) "Nothing can supply the place of books. They are cheering or soothing companions in solitude, illness, affliction. The wealth of both continents would not compensate for the good they impart. Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof, and obtain access for himself and family to some social library. Almost any luxury should be sacrificed to this." -- Dr. W. E. Channing, Self-culture _____________________________ (6) RARE BOOKS _____________________________ Pilgrims Book House stocks over 30,000 volumes of old & rare books: on many subjects and in several languages, including English, German, Sanskrit, Hindi and Nepali. If you are a collector, email us at <<mailto:rarebooks@pilgrims.wlink.com.np>mailto:rarebooks@pilgrims.wlink.com.np> for title searches and book lists. "The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading old ones." --Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) _____________________________ (7) FREE NEWSLETTER _____________________________ Keep up-to-date with the latest book news from India and Nepal, including news of recent Pilgrims publications. 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