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Travel Classics and Guidebooks
on the Himalayas, Nepal, Tibet, India and Central Asia
from Pilgrims Publishing, Varanasi,
India and Pilgrims Book House, Kathmandu, Nepal.
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The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, Concerning the
Kingdoms and Marvels of the East
by Marco Polo. Edited by Colonel Henry Yule
Marco Polo was one of the world's greatest travellers. Setting
out from Venice, he undertook an amazing epic journey to the
Middle East, China, India and Southeast Asia in 127195.
In China he became a favourite of Kublai Khan. He saw many phenomena
previously unknown to Europe, such as paper currency, asbestos,
coal, water ice and noodles.
After his return to Italy Polo dictated this massive account
of his travels which for Renaissance Europe was to become the
chief source of information on the world of the East.
For us in the twentieth century, Polo's account of his travels
is an exciting reading experience about a true adventure into
the unknown. It also throws valuable light on the state of the
East at the time of Polo's journey.
This beautiful two-volume set has been reprinted from the original
1875 classic edition of Henry Yule. Profusely illustrated with
black and white illustrations with foldout maps and lithographs.
Extensive notes. A must for every library.
"Of all the annotated translations of [Marco Polo's] book,
the most useful is that by Sir Henry Yule." - Columbia
Encyclopedia, Fifth Edition
Hardback. 2 volumes. 444 & 606 pages. Numerous B&W
woodcuts, foldout maps.
Weight: 2345 g (82.1 oz).
Item No: 81-7624-051-6.
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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.
Paperback. 278 pages.
Weight: 440 g (15.4 oz).
Item No: 81-7769-009-4
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Lost Cities of China, Central Asia and India
by David Hatcher Childress
Like a real-life Indiana Jones, maverick archaeologist David
Childress takes the reader on an incredible adventure across
some of the world's oldest and most remote countries in search
of lost cities and ancient mysteries. Discover ancient cities
in the Gobi Desert; hear fantastic tales of lost continents,
vanished civilisations and secret societies bent on ruling the
world. Visit forgotten monasteries in forbidding snow-capped
mountains with strange tunnels to mysterious subterranean cities!
A unique combination of far-out exploration and practical travel
advice, this book will astound and delight the experienced traveller
or the armchair voyager.
Paperback. 408 pages. B&W photographs, drawings and maps.
Weight: 470 g (16.5 oz).
Item No: 8177694499.
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A Question of Journey. Travel Episodes: India, Nepal, Thailand
and Bali
by John Brandi
A Question of Journey is John Brandi's celebratory
collection of vignettes compiled in Asia, a spirited potpouri
of people and places lavishly enhanced by his visionary collages.
This is a journey through distant lands as well as through the
continent of the heart. It is rich with non-stop impressions,
reflections and counter-reflections crowding the beholder's eye
- surreal landscapes of India and Nepal; street theatre in the
deserts of Rajasthan; grim and touching episodes from barbaric
urban ghettos; solitary journal jottings from a Himalayan pilgrimage;
and conversations with waifs and prophets, nuns and geologists,
tillers of the soil and tillers of the soul. Anyone interested
in the more esoteric aspects of travel and of the mind
will not forget this book.
"Brandi's work exemplifies the impressionistic postcard
travel-writing style established by Jack Kerouac. His work seeks
source and renewal in new geographies and in new travel with
its inevitable encounters and mysteries. He gets inside and outside
things. Nothing passes him by. He's a seer, a person who looks,
who retains an abiding curiosity and sympathy with special people
and places. Lucky for us that John's a praiser, a psalmist if
you will, affirming preserving the facts of his life his art
abounds in." - David Meltzer, San Francisco Poetry Renaissance
John Brandi, poet, painter, photographer, traveller, and
itinerant teacher, has authored several dozen books, including
Heartbeat Geography, Weeding the Cosmos, Stone
Garland, Relections in a Lizard's Eye, Visits to
the City of Light, and Empty Moon/Belly Full (the
latter two books also published by Pilgrims Publishing). Brandi
formerly received a National Endowment for the Arts for Poetry,
as well as numerous awards for teaching poetry in rural schools
from Alaska to Mexico. He lives beside the Rio Grande in New
Mexico.
Paperback. 196 pages. B&W collages, photos & drawings.
Weight: 380 g (13.3 oz).
Item No: 81-7303-180-0.
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A Record of the Buddhist Countries
by Fa-Hsien
Fa-Hsien, a Buddhist monk and one of China's great travellers,
made a pilgrimage to Buddhist holy sites in India and parts of
present day Pakistan (Swat) in the 4th century A D. This
small book is a summary of his enlightening travels.
Paperback. 93 pages.
Weight: 120 g (4.2 oz).
Item No: N000005916.
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Travels in Asia and Africa, 1325-1354
by Ibn Battuta. Edited by H A R Gibb.
Ibn Battuta, a Moroccan traveller, visited India during the
latter half of the fourteenth century. His travel accounts not
only make the most reliable source on the history of the sultanate
under the Tughlaq Dynasty, but also give details on the social,
political, cultural, religious and economic state of medieval
India in general. The present selections, which have been translated
afresh from the Arabic text, treat Ibn Battuta as a traveller
and not as a writer of geography. This selection will be of service
in introducing to a wider circle of English readers one of the
most remarkable travellers of his own or any age.
Paperback. 398 pages. B&W photographs and maps.
Weight: 500 g (17.5 oz).
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Windblown Clouds
by Thomas K Shor
"I think you should come with me to India."
These startling words are spoken to me while I am on a ferry
to Greece, and I happen to sit next to Ed Spencer, a brilliant
seventy-year-old ex-Harvard professor, turned wandering holy
man who makes this offer within an hour of our meeting. Though
unsure whether the old man is some kind of a bum or a realized
being-or both, I agree to go with this enigmatic stranger whose
credo is, "Take the money out of your pocket and put yourself
in the hands of the unknown."
The ensuing journey, recounted in the pages of Windblown Clouds,
takes us on an epic journey by foot into the heart of South India
and then to the Himalayas where I made my first contact with
the Tibetan people.
"Thomas K. Shor's story reminds us that we are, or could
be, travellers in a world of marvels, of love, and encounters
with men and women themselves on pilgrimages of the imagination."
-- Kathleen Raine, British poet
Paperback. 253 pages.
Weight: 275 g (9.6 oz).
Item No: 8177694219.
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Altai-Himalaya: A Travel Diary
by
Nicholas Roerich
This diary records the exciting four and a half year epic journey
through the many lands, sights and peoples of Central Asia undertaken
by the Russian artist, archaeologist, explorer and "Renaissance
man", Nicholas Roerich.
As Sean Pritchard-Jones writes: "Let this book take you
through the crystals of the great Himalayan summits to the lace
of the desert sands; through bureaucratic nightmares and extreme
hostility to the peaceful coexistence of all religions... Let
this thought-provoking book take you on a journey, not only through
the mountains and deserts of the east; but also through the boundaries
of your own mind."
Hardback. 407 pages.
Weight: 860 g (30.1 oz).
Item No: 81-7303-044-8.
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Beasts,
Men and Gods
by
Ferdinand Ossendowski
A gripping tale of adventure, this tells the story of
Dr. Ossendowski's escape from the Bolsheviks in Russa to yet
more troubles as he tries to pass through Tibet to India and
the safety of the British Empire. But the Tibetan bandits were
not about to let him cross their land, and it was only cunning
and subterfuge that saved him from certain death at their hands.
Forced to return to Mongolia, even then more travails awaited
him, and his story continues through this wild country, where
he had interminable adventures with the Tushegoun Lama and the
Baron Ungern.
Not just a travelogue, this also gives an insight into the
complicated state of Buddhism in Mongolia. Bad men are wiped
off the slate with the stoke or a hand or the utterance of a
word -- hung from shop frontage after stealing a bottle of alcohol,
for example. Justice in those places was tough in those days.
Read on, for exciting tales of man's struggle against the
forces of nature, and worse still, man's struggle against man.
Paperback. 325 pages.
Weight: 380 g (13.3 oz).
Item No: 8177693263.
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Central Asia and Tibet
by Sven Hedin
In 1899 the famous Swedish explorer, Sven Hedin, set out on
one of his most hazardous journeys: to visit the little known
interiors of Central Asia and Tibet. A three year voyage ensued
amidst remote peoples and through inhospitable terrain. Hedin's
goal was to penetrate the then forbidden city of Lhasa ... but
the Tibetans had other ideas!
"These two volumes contain a detailed account of Sven Hedin's
journey of exploration in the first years of the century which
took him through Chinese Turkestan and the Takla-Makan and Gobi
deserts before he turned south into Tibet. He travelled through
parts of northern Tibet and then attempted to reach Lhasa, only
to be intercepted by Tibetan troops and turned back. He then
turned south and travelled through to India via Ladakh. Although
his prose style is sometimes hard going, his books are invariably
rewarding; these two volumes contain over 400 illustrations,
both line drawings and photographs, and several maps." -
John Whelpton, Tibet (Clio Press)
Hardback. 2 volumes. 1272 pages. B&W plates & small
photographs; foldout colour maps.
Weight: 1900 g (66.5 oz).
Item No: 81-8513-2114-3.
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Early Jesuit Travellers in Central Asia, 1603-1721
by C Wessels
This unusual book gives an insight into the often forgotten
pioneering travel and discovery by Jesuit missionaries in Asia,
especially Tibet. This book is a compilation of geographical,
historical and cultural information collected by the Jesuits
during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Each chapter
details fascinating first impressions of people and things unseen
by any Europeans before. A valuable source of information for
anyone interested in the early exploration of the Himalayan region.
"Although few of the European travellers to Tibet in the
19th century realised it, much of the ground that they were exploring
had already been traversed by the Jesuit missionaries over 100
years before. This book, based on manuscript as well as printed
sources, chronicles the journeys of all the Jesuits who reached
Tibet. The most interesting journeys are those of Stephen Cacella
and John Cabral (1626-32) who visited Gyantse and Shigatse, John
Grueber and Albert d'Orville (1661-64) who travelled from China
through eastern Tibet to Lhasa and then went on to India, and
Ippolito Desideri (1714-22) who travelled from Kashmir along
the Tsangpo to Lhasa." - John Whelpton, Tibet (Clio
Press)
Paperback. 233 pages. Foldout map.
Weight: 255 g (8.9 oz).
Item No: 81-7303-105-3.
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The Heart of a Continent: A Narrative of the Travels in Manchuria,
Across the Gobi Desert, Across the Himalayas, the Pamirs, and
Chitra, 1884-1894
by Capt Frank E Younghusband
Sir Francis Younghusband is universally known for his forcible
entry into Lhasa in 1902. But his adventures commenced much earlier.
After mountaineering in Manchuria, he began in 1887 his exciting
journey through the heart of Asia, across the Gobi Desert and
Chinese Turkestan to Kashgar and Yarkand, and then across the
Himalayas to Srinagar. He was sent by the British to investigate
Hunza raids on Kirghiz territory; he went on his famous expedition
to the Pamirs, only to be summarily ordered out by the Russians;
and in 1898 he was appointed political agent in the disturbed
Chitral (in present-day Pakistan). "Interesting and valuable
information" - Nation.
Hardback. 409 pages. B&W illustrations; foldout B&W &
colour maps.
Weight: 1000 g (35 oz).
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Heart of Asia
by Nicholas Roerich
"Like deformed skeletons, the age-devoured walls of ancient
cities stretch along the road..."
On a shaky bridge across the yellow thundering Indus, you
hear the story of how the hand of Sukamir, the Kashmiri invader,
was nailed to the bridge as a sign of warning. But a cat ate
the hostile hand, and in order to keep up the moral lesson, the
hand of a dead lama had to be nailed to the bridge!
Such tales are characteristic of Nicholas Roerich's writing.
A remarkable man; philosopher, artist, explorer and author. He
travelled for several years across the mountains and plains of
Asia.
His thoughts take us not just on a physical journey thorough
these desolate lands, but also on a mental search for enlightenment.
Why does man push himself to such extremes? When a warm log fire
is waiting at the end of the road, why take the longest route
and submit one's earthly body to such risks? What is it about
the Himalayas that draws one ever closer, demanding one's all
but giving so much in return?
This book will point the way, perhaps, to some of the answers
to those deep philosophical questions, while also being a fascinating
travelogue for those who do not wish to probe so deeply into
the recesses of their minds.
Paperback. 171 pages.
Weight: 170 g (6 oz).
Item No: 817769541X.
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Shambhala
by Nicholas Roerich
In this book Nicholas Roerich has recorded his journey through
Central Asia and Tibet in terms of spirit. It is a record of
legends, of parables, of notes - the very substance of which
the larger reality is composed, and all revealing different facets
of Shambhala.
As in his other books, Altai-Himalaya and Heart of
Asia, one realises that Roerich's vision is manifold. Travelling
on his way, he discerns all the beauty of the natural spectacle
through which he passes. And in his works as in his paintings
he records this panorama in successive sparks which flow
into a continuous pageantry. But in addition, Roerich perceives
also that subtler manifestation of the countries and people through
which he journeys. He discerns their thoughts; he perceives the
pulsating, throbbing hopes and beliefs that sweep like winds
across space. And it is this record so little visible to
many of us that becomes the vital force of Roerich's message.
Paperback. 316 pages.
Weight: 360 g (12.6 oz).
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The Silk Road
by Sven Hedin
There is danger on every page of this book. When in 1933 Sven
Hedin met Chinese officials, they talked of recent losses of
territory by the Chinese, and Hedin expressed the opinion that
there would be more losses if the Government did not achieve
a closer contact with its western provinces. Hedin suggested
motor highways would be a necessity for this purpose. Hedin was
appointed to lead an expedition along the old Silk Road routes
in Sinkiang to survey the possibilities for highways. This vivid
book reflects that exciting expedition the constant mishaps,
serious accidents and dangers; the immensity of China; the divergent
ethnic groups; the ambitious generals; and the brigands.
"Important contribution to the literature on Central
Asia" - Manchester Guardian.
Hardback. 310 pages. B&W photographs & drawings. Foldout
maps.
Weight: 760 g (26.6 oz).
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Through Asia
by Sven Hedin
Scientist and adventurer, Sven Hedin, in 1893 started out on
another bold expedition into Central Asia to explore the Gobi
Desert and the endless wastes of the Tibetan plateau. His aim
was scientific research in topology, geology, anthropology, archaeology,
meteorology and hydrology. Here is a graphic description of spectacular
scenery and remote peoples, of constant adventures and dangers
faced.
Hardback. 2 volumes. 1278 pages. B&W photographs & drawings.
Foldout maps.
Weight: 1740 g (60.9 oz).
Item No: 81-7303-005-7.
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Trails to Inmost Asia: Five Years of Exploration with the
Roerich Central Asian Expedition
by George N Roerich
Under the direction of the famous Russian artist, Professor
Nicholas Roerich, a remarkable expedition was conducted for almost
five years throughout the various lands of Central Asia. Accompanying
Professor Roerich was his son, George N Roerich, an orientalist
with a knowledge of Persian, Sanskrit, Tibetan and Chinese. This
extensive knowledge of languages provided him with the key to
the mysteries of this "closed land".
George Roerich made the first dictionary of dialects of the Mongol
tribes and discovered the existence of an artistic style peculiar
to the High Plateau nomads. He documented many previously unknown
monuments in Tibet and the Trans-Himalayas. He visited Buddhist
monasteries, usually forbidden to strangers, and discovered the
inestimable treasure of a complete collection of books of the
Bon-po religion, the pre-Buddhist religion of Tibet. During these
five years he painted nearly five hundred pictures, providing
a unique panorama of this little-known region of Asia.
Hardback. 504 pages. B&W photographs & foldout map.
Weight: 1070 g (37.5 oz).
Item No: 81-7303-032-4.
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*** India ***
Benares: The Sacred City of the Hindus
by M A Sherring
Benares, Kashi or Varanasi -- this illustrious place of pilgrimage
and idealised nucleus of faith -- has been likened to Jerusalem
or Mecca. It is acknowledged throughout the world as a centre
of Hindu tradition and a seat of ancient learning. It is a city
where infinity and continuity, the past and present, live together.
There are few cities in the world of greater antiquity and none
that have so uninterruptedly maintained their ancient celebrity
and distinction.
This book, written just after the freedom struggle of 1857, offers
a piercing insight into the culture of Benares as seen through
the eyes of a European at that time.
The book will also tell you why this city has been for over two
and a half thousand years the pre-eminent sacred city of the
Hindus and why it has a primary status on the cultural map of
India.
Paperback. 283 pages. B&W photographs.
Weight: 350 g (12.3 oz).
Item No: 81-7303-235-1.
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Benares, The Sacred City: Sketches of Hindu Life and Religion
by E B Havell
Benares (or Varanasi) represents the essential quality of India.
Here is India's life and drama and its unyielding brutality.
But here too, undiluted and almost tangible, is the mysterious
and marvellous energy that has enticed and charmed so many foreigners
over the centuries.
This book, published originally in 1905, remains an almost flawless
guide to present-day Varanasi which has changed very little and
still retains its charisma for those who search for ancient India.
The book gives a lucid outline of Hindu ideas and religious practices.
It presents the innovative and aesthetic aspects of Indian religions,
which can be better observed in few other places than in this
sacred city and its neighbourhood.
This book will introduce the reader to the extraordinary cultural
and spiritual richness of Varanasi and as such will be more rewarding
than most travel books.
Paperback. 124 pages. B&W photographs.
Weight: 165 g (5.8 oz).
Item No: 81-7303-236-X.
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A Day in Kashi
Photographs: Severine Dabadie. Text: Christiane Etchezaharreta
& Severine Dabdie.
Well travelled and well versed in the ways of the world, Severine
Dabadie and her long-time friend Christiane Etchezaharreta finally
discovered a new reality in Varanasi, or Kashi, as they so lovingly
dub it. Inspired by the antiquity they decided to produce a book
that would make Varanasi available to all. Coming from the Basque
Country, both have travelled widely together, Severine with her
ever-ready camera and Christiane with her flowing pen. This is
their first attempt at a full-scale book, but they assure us
that there may be more to come. Severine Dabadie, though, has
over the past ten years displayed her photographs in many exhibitions.
Hardback. 277 pages. Colour photographs. Maps. Bibliography.
English text.
Weight: 2000 g (70 oz).
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Un Día en Kashi
Photographs: Severine Dabadie. Text: Christiane Etchezaharreta
& Severine Dabdie.
Well travelled and well versed in the ways of the world, Severine
Dabadie and her long-time friend Christiane Etchezaharreta finally
discovered a new reality in Varanasi, or Kashi, as they so lovingly
dub it. Inspired by the antiquity they decided to produce a book
that would make Varanasi available to all. Coming from the Basque
Country, both have travelled widely together, Severine with her
ever-ready camera and Christiane with her flowing pen. This is
their first attempt at a full-scale book, but they assure us
that there may be more to come. Severine Dabadie, though, has
over the past ten years displayed her photographs in many exhibitions.
Hardback. 281 pages. Colour photographs. Maps. Bibliography.
Spanish text.
Weight: 1900 g (66.5 oz).
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Un Jour à Kashi
Photographies: Severine Dabadie. Texte: Christiane Etchezaharreta
et Severine Dabdie.
Voyageuses passionnées depuis longtemps, Severine Dabadie
et son amie Christiane Etchezaharreta ont decouvert une nouvelle
réalité à Varanasi, ou Kashi, comme les
gens l'appellent affectueusement. Inspirées par l'antiquité,
elles ont décidé à produire un livre qui
rendrait Varanasi disponible à tous. Nées toutes
deux dans le pays basque, elles ont voyagé ensemble dans
beaucoup de pays, Severine avec son appareil photographique toujours
prêt et Christiane avec son stylo florissant. Un Jour
à Kashi est leur premier essai à créer
un livre complet, mais elles nous assurent que beaucoup plus
de livres peuvent apparaître plus tard. De son part, Severine
Dabadie a montré ses photographies dans beaucoup d'expositions
au cours des dix dernières années.
Hardback. 277 pages. Colour photographs. Maps. Bibliography.
French text.
Weight: 2000 g (70 oz).
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Pantau in India
by Veronique Francoise Renard
In this bold and controversially written book, the author recounts
her experiences of three life-altering journeys in India which
made her give up on her Western life as an office worker in Europe.
Having struggled to make sense of her existence and questioning
her own values, she found that life in India offered her a fulfilling
purpose in life when she became a writer, publisher and political
activist in Dharmasala, the hometown of the Dalai Lama in the
northern Indian Himalayas.
Paperback. 348 pages.
Weight: 300 g (10.5 oz).
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Sleeping in Caves: A Sixties Himalayan Memoir
by Marilyn Stablein
In 1965, Stablein drops out of Berkeley and travels to India
and Nepal with her lover. Their brief get away turns into a 7
year stay. "There are times when I ask myself", Stablein
writes, "What am I am doing here? My answer: to paint, to
study a culture; to uncover its secrets; to listen to the whisperings,
the sacred oral traditions; to learn by heart the names and faces
of deities so I can capture their images on paper and strive
to imbue each image with the greatness of its namesake, its spiritual
essence. Art is my muse and practice. The world is my palette,
artists my teachers; art lives and breathes in the people I meet".
In the heyday of the sixties Stablein encounters luminaries
of the American counter-culture like Ram Dass who she accompanies
to interview HH the Dalai Lama on the spiritual value of LSD.
Later, when the Indian police come to arrest Stablein for having
an expired visa, Kalu Rinpoche quips "The Buddha never had
visas," and orders her to hide in a closet next to his tantric
human bone costumes.
Includes photos and recipes.
Marilyn Stablein, writer, artist, and performer, is the author
of seven books and a frequent performer of her work. Her art
has been widely exhibited. She lives in the Hudson Valley and
co-directs, with her husband, Alternative Books and The Uptown:
A Performance Space in Kingston, NY.
"The funniest, best, truest (and secretly truest) writing
ever done on life in India."
-- Gary Snyder
"Marilyn Stablein's wry voice tells how it was, calmly
and clearly, unadorned .whether on the ground with sadhus and
chapatis or in the sky with diamonds these wry prose poems evoke
a last epiphany of the best of east and west." Keith
Dowman, author of The Power Places of Tibet
"The author's eye is wide open, and her writing is fresh,
funny, and exhilarating."
-- Peter Matthiessen
Paperback. 198 pages. B&W photographs and drawings. Map.
Weight: 220 g (7.7 oz).
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Sikkim
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An Unfrequented Highway: Through Sikkim and Tibet to Chumolaori
by John Easton
An Unfrequented Highway Through Sikkim and Tibet to Chumolaori
relates John Easton's journey through Sikkim and Tibet to Chumolaori
in the 1920s. It is a journey that carries us up from the plains
of India to the heights of the Himalaya.
The journey takes us through one of the less known and travelled
Himalayan routes. The author describes to us the wondrous vistas
of the mountains as he passes through Kalimpong and Sikkim on
his way to the pass into Tibet.
This travelogue amply describes the area as it was then and
one has to wonder how much if at all it has really changed.
Paperback. 135 pages. B&W photographs. Map.
Weight: 310 g (10.9 oz).
Item No: 81-7769-385-9.
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Aama in America: A Pilgrimage of the Heart
by Broughton Coburn
"Spirituality is our lasting reference" -- Aama
Vishnu Maya, called Aama (Mother) by everyone in her tiny Nepali
village, was living high in the Himalayas when she befriended
American Peace Corps worker, Broughton Coburn, in 1974. In 1988
Aama came to visit him -- on a trip prescribed by village priests
as a way for the eighty-four year old, four-foot-eight woman
to earn merit by making a difficult journey late in life.
Aama in America is a vivid chronicle of what became a
25 state, coast-to-coast adventure. Guided by the perpetual curiosity
and deeply spiritual orientation of their ingenious, unpredictable
travel companion, Coburn and his fiancee gradually began to view
their country from an entirely new perspective. "Beneath
the uniform commercial, man-made epidermis of our country,"
Coburn writes, "Aama found a culture and a landscape that
was alive and sacred and she steered us toward it."
Aama in America is on one level an offbeat American travelogue.
But on another it is a profound exploration of beliefs, value
and lost spirituality, a rediscovery of the spirituality that
lies beneath the surface of America, and a singular account of
the meeting of two widely divergent cultures.
"A thought-provoking, enlightening story." -- Bellingham
Herald
"Coburn gives us a sense of what the New World was like
for the spiritually rich Aama But as the journey progresses,
he embarks on a journey of his own, an inner pilgrimage to a
place of psychic healing." -- Hartford Courant
Paperback. 304 pages. B&W photographs.
Weight: 280 g (9.8 oz).
Item No: 81-7303-213-0.
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