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Light of India
Ten Speed Press 2013; US$ 16.95With all the zany vibrancy of a Bollywood musical, the colorful matchbox labels of LIGHT OF INDIA present a fascinating confluence of popular culture and a sophisticated graphic arts tradition that stretches back for centuries. Populated with pouncing Bengal tigers, regal jungle elephants, and Hindu gods and goddesses, these miniature masterpieces... more...
The Call of Everest
National Geographic Society 2013; US$ 28.00Gripping and sumptuous, this is the definitive book on the history, mystique, and science of Mount Everest, including how climate change is impacting the world's tallest mountain. In 1963, the American Mount Everest Expedition made mountaineering history. It was the first American venture to successfully scale the legendary peak and the first... more...
Fodor's Essential India
Fodor's Travel Publications 2013; US$ 25.99India is a country of vibrant and enticing contrasts: exquisite palaces are juxtaposed against simple temples, and modern high-tech industry coexists with ancient customs and rituals. There's much to see and do in this vast and geographically diverse country, and Fodor's Essential India covers the must-see sights better than anyone else. Expanded... more...
The Teardrop Island
Summersdale Publishers Ltd. 2013; US$ 9.99"Here again, Mr Cossey? asked the young Spanish embryologist, shooting me a welcoming smile as I followed him down the corridor. He had recognised me by sight and that wasnt good. I was now the one thing you dont want to be in a fertility clinic. A regular."Martha wanted a baby. Mark wanted a baby.Whats the worst... more...
Delirious Delhi
Skyhorse Publishing 2013; US$ 17.95When the Big Apple no longer felt big enough, Dave Prager and his wife, Jenny, moved to a city of sixteen million peoplewith seemingly twice as many honking horns. Living and working in Delhi, the couple wrote about their travails and discoveries on their popular blog Our Delhi Struggle. This book, all new, is Daves top-to-bottom... more...
An Essay on India (Routledge Revivals)
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 42.95First published in 1931, Robert Byron?s Essay on India evaluates the state of colonial rule in India and analyses the contemporary problems facing the country. Based upon Byron?s travelling experiences within India in 1929 as a correspondent for the Daily Express, the work explores political factors more fully than in Byron's earlier writings,... more...
Calcutta
Aurum Press 2013; US$ 14.58In 1999, Amit Chaudhuri moved back to Calcutta, the city in which he was born. It was a place he had loved in his youth and the place he had made his name writing about. But upon his return he discovered that the Calcutta of his imagination had receded and another had taken its place. Lyrical, observant and profound, Calcutta is a personal account... more...
Begums, Thugs and White Mughals
Eland Publishing 2012; US$ 14.57Fanny Parkes lived in India between 1822 and 1846 and was the ideal travel writer ? courageous, indefatigably curious and determinedly independent. Her journals trace her transformation from prim memsahib to eccentric, sitar-playing Indophile, fluent in Urdu, critical of British rule and passionate in her appreciation of Indian culture. Fanny is fascinated... more...
Travels on my Elephant
Eland Publishing 2012; US$ 14.57With the help of a Maratha nobleman, Mark Shand bought an elephant named Tara and rode her over six hundred miles across India to the Sonepur Mela, the world?s oldest elephant market. From Bhim, a drink-racked mahout, Shand learned to ride and care for her. From his friend Aditya Patankar he learned Indian ways. And with Tara, his new companion, he... more...
Birds of Passage
Eland Publishing 2012; US$ 14.57The journals of Lady Henrietta Clive, a feisty, independent-minded traveller, are among the very earliest written accounts of India by a British woman. Married to Lord Edward Clive, son of Clive of India and Governor of Madras (1798?1803), she travelled through southern India with her daughters and retinue in the aftermath of the war against Tipu... more...









