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Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure
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Sarah MacDonald
After backpacking her way around India, 21-year-old Sarah Macdonald decided that she hated this land of chaos and contradiction with a passion, and when an airport beggar read her palm and insisted she would come back one day - and for love - she vowed never to return. But twelve years later the prophecy comes true when her partner, ABC's South ...
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Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar
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Paul Theroux
Thirty years after his classic "The Great Railway Bazaar," Theroux revisits Eastern Europe, Central Asia, India, China, Japan, and Siberia. Wherever he goes, his omnivorous curiosity and unerring eye for detail never fail to inspire, enlighten, inform, and entertain.
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Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey Into Bhutan
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Jamie Zeppa
In this memoir, a young Canadian woman decides to take her first trip outside of North America before she is to be married. After accepting a teaching post in Bhutan, a tiny kingdom in the Himalayas bordering China and India, she eventually breaks off her engagement and falls in love with another man.
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Everest: The West Ridge
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Thomas F Hornbein
In one of mountaineering's great-st adventure stories, Thomas Hombein tells of his and Willi Unsoeld's dramatic first ascent of Everest's West Ridge -- a route that had been dismissed as hopeless by all previous expeditions. Part of the first successful American expedition, Hombein and Unsoeld ascended beyond "the point of no return" to make the ...
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The Snow Leopard
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Peter Matthiessen
Author Matthiessen documents his travels in Nepal with naturalist George Schaller, including his attempts to come to grips with his wife's death from cancer, and his general pondering of questions of life and death. The snow leopard becomes a symbol to Matthiessen of the elusive silence of the peace of Zen.
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Dreaming in Hindi: Coming Awake in Another Language
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Katherine Russell Rich
Rich documents her experiences in India--ranging from the bizarre to the frightening to the unexpectedly exhilarating--using Hindi as the lens through which she is given a new perspective not only on India, but on the radical way the country and the language itself were changing her.
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Slowly Down the Ganges
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Eric Newby
Newby's tribute to the richness of life along the Ganges River was written after a 1200-mile trip he made in 1961 with his wife, Wanda.
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Culture Smart! India: A Quick Guide to Customs and Etiquette
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Nicki Grihault
"Culture Smart!" provides priceless nuggets of cultural information on India not found in a standard guidebook. Whether you are looking to secure a business deal, enrich your travels, or simply better understand India, its people and customs, "Culture Smart!" provides the information in a clear and highly readable guide. Rather than get bogged ...
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Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle
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Dervla Murphy
During the particularly harsh winter of 1963, Dervla Murphy rode her bicycle across Europe, Persia, Afghanistan, the Himalayas, Pakistan and India. This account of her extraordinary solo journey tells of her resourcefulness in the face of personal dangers and unexpected encounters. Dervla Murphy has also written "In Ethiopia with a Mule", ...
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On Alexander's Track to the Indus: Personal Narrative of Explorations on the Northwest Frontier of India
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Sir Aurel Stein
"On Alexander's Track to the Indus", first published in 1929, is Aurel Stein's account of the expeditions he mounted following in the footsteps of Alexander the Great during the triumphant invasion that, interestingly, left not a trace in Indian literature or tradition. Stein's account has justifiably achieved cult status for the dangers and ...
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India
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Dorling Kindersley Publishing (Creator)
Recognized the world over by frequent flyers and armchair travelers alike, this Eyewitness Travel Guide is the most colorful and comprehensive guide to India on the market. With beautiful commissioned photographs and spectacular 3-D aerial views revealing the charm of this exotic country, this amazing travel guide shows what others only tell.
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City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
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William Dalrymple
A fascinating portrait of a year in the life of the city of Delhi by the winner of the Somerset Maugham Award for travel writing in 1995.
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Lonely Planet India
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Sarina Singh
the longest running and best selling guide to India Indian lead author Sarina Singh, eight years with Lonely Planet, has a greater insight into Indian society, culture and languages than any guidebook author detailed itinerary maps guide you around the main sights and highlights of the North, the South, and off the beaten track much more to draw ...
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Delhi, Agra & Jaipur
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Anuradha Chaturvedi (Editor), Dharmendar Kanwar (Editor), Partho Datta (Editor)
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Annapurna South Face
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Chris Bonington
In 1970, Chris Bonington and his now-legendary team of mountaineers were the first climbers to tackle a big wall at extreme altitude. Their target was the south face of Nepal's Annapurna: 12,000 feet of steep rock and ice leading to a 26, 454-ft. summit. As serious armchair climbers will tell you, Annapurna South Face is better than all but a ...
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Frommer's India
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Pippa de Bruyn, Dr. Keith Bain, Pippa de Bruyn
Frommer's. The best trips start here. This book lets you experience a place the way the locals do. It lets you enjoy the best it has to offer. It offers expert advice on seeing the splendors of India with ease. It contains outspoken opinions on what's worth your time and what's not. It lists exact prices, so you can plan the perfect trip whatever ...
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Marrying Anita: A Quest for Love in the New India
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Anita Jain
Is arranged marriage any worse than Craigslist? One smart and feisty woman's year in India looking for a husband the old-fashioned way reveals a rapidly changing culture and a whole host of ideas about the best way to find a mate. Anita Jain was fed up with the New York singles scene. After three years of frustration and awkward dates, and under ...
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Calcutta
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Geoffrey Moorhouse
Classic history of the Victorian seat of the British Raj, setting for the notorious Black Hole where 2 score English settlers diedin an 18th century uprising, and today the 4th largest city in the world. Kipling called it the city of dreadful night - a city of unspeakable poverty, of famine, riot and disease. Yet Calcutta, once the seat of the Raj ...
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The Crystal Horizon: Everest--The First Solo Ascent
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Reinhold Messner
On August 20, 1980, Reinhold Messner, the world-renowned master of alpine-style climbing, became the first person to reach the summit of Everest solo and without supplemental oxygen. A vivid account of Messner's expedition, "The Crystal Horizon" also reflects on how he explored his innermost thoughts while facing the most extreme physical ...
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Waiting Land: A Spell in Nepal
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Dervla Murphy
Travel writer Dervla Murphy affectionately portrays the people of Nepal's different tribes, the customs of an ancient, complex civilization and the country's natural grandeur and beauty.
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A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
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Eric Newby
After a crash course in mountaineering, Newby goes from fashion-house toady to climber of Mir Samir (19,880'), a mountain in the Hindu Kush region of northeast Afghanistan. This droll recital of his experiences, along with his equally inexperienced friend Hugh, has become a classic of travel literature.
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Sorcerer's Apprentice
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Tahir Shah
In this memoir/travelogue an amateur British conjurer recalls the colorful characters he met and the places he went across India in his search for one of his childhood idols. When he finds him, he is told to apprentice himself to a second conjurer, with whom he travels across India, and finds his patience sorely strained by his mentor's ways.
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Karma Cola: Marketing the Mystic East
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Gita Mehta
No one has observed the West's invasion of India more astutely than Gita Mehta. In 'Karma Cola' the acclaimed novelist trains an unblinking journalistic eye on jaded sadhus and beatific acid burnouts, the Bhagwan and Allen Ginsberg, guilt-tripping English girls and a guru who teaches gullible tourists how to view their previous incarnations.
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The lotus and the robot.
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Arthur Koestler
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The Rough Guide to South India
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David Abram, Nick Edwards, Mike Ford
"The Rough Guide to South India" is the ultimate handbook to this spectacular region. The full-colour section introduces South India's highlights from cruising on Kerala's teeming Kuttanad backwater region to the madness of the Maharasthran capital. This fully-updated 5th edition includes expanded coverage of Kerala and detailed accounts of all ...
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