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2) Mysterium
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
271 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The story of a dangerous expedition up Mount Sarasvati in India that tests all of the climb's members"--
Author
Language
English
Description
A century after a yeti captures Lady Agatha Farlingham and takes her to a hidden valley to raise his motherless children, tourism threatens their peaceful existence and young Con and Ellen take these educated and civilized yetis across Europe to Lady Agatha's home in England.
5) Lost horizon
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Two Englishmen, a woman missionary, and an American fleeing the consequences of shady financial deals are traveling companions.
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventure volume 26
Language
English
Description
"Fearless adventurer Dirk Pitt must unravel a historical mystery of epic importance in the latest novel in the beloved New York Times bestselling series created by the "grand master of adventure" Clive Cussler In 1959 Tibet, a Buddhist artifact of immense importance was seemingly lost to history in the turmoil of the Communist takeover. But when National Underwater and Marine Agency Director Dirk Pitt discovers a forgotten plane crash in the Philippine...
Author
Publisher
Areté
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
1. ed.
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 26 cm
Language
Español
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Description
The teenager Alexander Cold, his best friend Nadia and his grandmother Kate, a specialist in travel journalism, have survived their adventure in the Amazon regions. Now they are setting out for another remote area of the world with some National Geographic photographers. Their mission is to enter a forbidden kingdom, hidden in the icy peaks of the Himalayas, to find the legendary sacred statue and oracle, the Golden Dragon.
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
384 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Zoologist and adventurer Captain R. J. MacCready journeys to post-World War II Tibet to search for a legendary creature that may hold the secret to humankind's evolutionary future.
Author
Series
Unicorn Rescue Society volume 6
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When Professor Fauna spots a unicorn horn mounted on the wall of the Schmoke Brothers' living room, the Unicorn Rescue Society heads to the Himalayan mountains of Northern Pakistan to finally see a unicorn themselves.
12) Pemba Sherpa
Author
Publisher
Odyssey Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a Sherpa village in the foothills of Nepal's Himalayas, seven-year-old Yang Ki wants to haul wood like her brother Pemba, so she'll grow strong enough to be a porter. She wants to learn her brother tells her that girls cannot be guides. Yang Ki, however, is very determined.
Author
Publisher
West Hills/Hundreds of Heads
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
402 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A murder at the Taj Mahal. A kidnapping in a sacred city. A desperate chase through a cliffside monastery. All in the pursuit of a legend that could link the world's great religious faiths. In 1887, a Russian journalist made an explosive discovery in a remote Himalayan monastery only to be condemned and silenced for the heresy he proposed. His discovery vanished shortly thereafter. Now, graduate student Grant Matthews journeys to the Himalayas in...
14) Two Sherpas
Author
Publisher
Charco Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An Englishman has fallen from a ridge in Nepal. His guides kneel at the edge, exchanging the odd word, waiting for him to move. They must make a decision to descend. In those minutes, Two Sherpas expands dizzyingly to encompass Mount Everest's place in the imagination of imperialists, Nazis and others; ambition, exploration and exploitation; a mysterious encounter in a beach resort in a distant land; a performance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar,...
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
34 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Tsering, the boy hero of Himalaya, returns in this touching story of courage and persistence. On a trip with his new stepfather, Tsering is warned not to approach the mountain pass where his father was killed. But as the child and grandchild of two hotheaded men, and driven by anger at his father's untimely death, Tsering decides to follow his instincts and goes off in the night to climb. In his ascent, Tsering makes precious discoveries that will...
Author
Publisher
David R. Godine, Publisher
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
viii, 143 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An outrageously funny spoof about the ascent of a 40,000-and-a-half-foot peak, The Ascent of Rum Doodle has been a cult favorite since its publication in 1956. Led by the reliably under-insightful Binder, a team of seven British men including Dr. Prone (constantly ill); Jungle the route finder (constantly lost), Constant the diplomat (constantly arguing) and 3,000 Yogistani porters, set out to conquer the highest peak in the Himalayas"--
Author
Publisher
Conch Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
286 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"When novice monk Tenzin Dorje is told by his lama that the Red Army is invading Tibet, his country's darkest moment paradoxically gives him a sense of purpose like no other. He accepts a mission to carry two ancient, secret texts across the Himalayas to safety. Half a century later, in a paradox of similarly troubling circumstances, Matt Lester is called upon to convey his own particular wisdom as a scientist, when Matt's nanotech project is mysteriously...
Author
Publisher
Vertical, Inc
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
400 p. : chiefly ill., maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The first volume of Osamu Tezuka's fictional biography of Siddhartha, Gautama Buddha. Introduces Chapra, a slave boy who tries to escape his fate; Chapra's slave mother, who sticks by him no matter what; Tatta, a crazed wild child pariah who communes with animals; and Naradatta, a monk attempting to decipher strange portents of the Buddha's birth.
Author
Series
Dotan Naor volume 1
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Ex-Israeli operative turned private investigator, Dotan Naor-- to settle a bet-- agrees to locate the missing son of former acquaintance, now ruthless Israeli arms merchant, Willy Mizrachi. Willy, who does not hesitate to sell killing machines to the most heinous players in the world, is desperate to find his only son, Itiel, who has headed to an ashram in the Himalayas. The Himalayas are also host to groups of young Israelis who have completed their...
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