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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
“A masterpiece that exceeds the boundaries of the travel genre and envelops you with its incredible prose.” —Wall Street Journal
An unforgettable spiritual journey through the Himalayas by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014)
In 1973, Peter Matthiessen and field biologist George Schaller traveled high into the remote mountains of Nepal to study the Himalayan...
“A masterpiece that exceeds the boundaries of the travel genre and envelops you with its incredible prose.” —Wall Street Journal
An unforgettable spiritual journey through the Himalayas by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014)
In 1973, Peter Matthiessen and field biologist George Schaller traveled high into the remote mountains of Nepal to study the Himalayan...
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English
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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.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (159 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A landmark three-part series made in conjunction with the BBC, Kingdoms of the Sky reveals the extraordinary animals and remarkable people who make a home on the iconic mountain ranges of the world.
4) Lost horizon
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Series
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English
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Two Englishmen, a woman missionary, and an American fleeing the consequences of shady financial deals are traveling companions.
6) Mysterium
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
271 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
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"The story of a dangerous expedition up Mount Sarasvati in India that tests all of the climb's members"--
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Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xliv, 377 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
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More rugged and elevated than any other zone on earth, Himālaya embraces all of Tibet, plus six of the world's eight major mountain ranges and nearly all its highest peaks. Thirty-five percent of the global population depend on Himālaya's freshwater for crop irrigation, protein, and, increasingly, hydropower. It now sits seismically unstable, as tectonic plates consider to shift and the region remains gridlocked in a global debate surrounding climate...
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
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293 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, map ; 25 cm
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English
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Levison Wood's most challenging expedition yet begins along the Silk Road route of Afghanistan and travels 1700 miles through five countries over the course of six months. Following in the footsteps of the great explorers, Wood walks the entire length of the Himalayas in an adventure of survival and endurance. In a personal story of perseverance and discovery, Wood forges bonds with local guides, porters, mountain men, soldiers, farmers, smugglers...
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Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
230 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 23 cm
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English
Description
Following his vivid account of traveling with one of the last camel caravans on earth in Men of Salt, Michael Benanav now brings us along on a journey with a tribe of forest-dwelling nomads in India. Welcomed into a family of nomadic water buffalo herders, he joins them on their annual spring migration into the Himalayas. More than a glimpse into an endangered culture, this superb adventure explores the relationship between humankind and wild lands,...
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W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
581 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A magisterial history of the Himalaya: an epic story of peoples, cultures, and adventures among the world's highest mountains. For many years, the unique and astonishing geography of the Himalaya has attracted those in search of spiritual and literal elevation: pilgrims, adventurers, and mountaineers seeking to test themselves among the world's most spectacular and challenging peaks. But far from being wild and barren, the Himalaya has been home...
13) Meru
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three renowned climbers navigate nature’s harshest elements and their own complicated inner demons to ascend Mount Meru, the most technically complicated and dangerous peak in the Himalayas. Winner of the Audience Award for Documentary at the **Sundance Film Festival**. Nominated for Best Documentary at the **Film Independent Spirit Awards**. *"A triumph of editing and narrative beyond "Are you kidding me?" visuals, Meru is a climbing story with...
14) The folded earth
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Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Edition
1st Free Press trade pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
269 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a remote town in the Himalaya, Maya tries to put behind her a time of great sorrow. By day she teaches in a school and at night she types up drafts of a magnum opus by her landlord, a relic of princely India known to all as Diwan Sahib. Her bond with this eccentric, and her friendship with a peasant girl, Charu, give her the sense that she might be able to forge a new existence away from the devastation of her past. As Maya finds out, no place...
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Series
Choose your own adventure volume 1
Publisher
Chooseco
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
Revised text
Physical Desc
116 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book is different from other books. You and YOU ALONE are in charge of what happens in this story. Choose from 28 different endings.
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English
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"In the vein of Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild, a riveting work of narrative nonfiction centering on the unsolved disappearance of an American backpacker in India--one of at least two dozen tourists who have met a similar fate in the remote and storied Parvati Valley. For centuries, India has enthralled westerners looking for an exotic getaway, a brief immersion in yoga and meditation, or in rare cases, a true pilgrimage to find spiritual revelation....
20) Lost horizon
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Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 134 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fleeing war-torn China, a small planeload of people are hijacked to an idyllic valley in the Himalayas where time has virtually stopped. There Conway, a British diplomat, falls in love with a beautiful woman, and is asked to remain in Shangri-La as its new leader.
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