Book Description

Trek remote regions and experience spectacular tsechu festivals. Behold sublime mountain monasteries and imposing dzongs. This guide opens the door to the last Himalayan Buddhist kingdom.

• 37 detailed maps, including a colour country map
• illustrated sections on architecture, festivals and textiles
• comprehensive cultural,...

Amazon.com
As a teacher of English literature, Jamie Zeppa would understand how the story of her journey into Bhutan could be fit into the convenient box of "coming-of-age romance," a romance with a landscape, a people, a religion, and a dark, irresistible student. An innocent, young Catholic woman from a Canadian mining town who had "never been anywhere," Zeppa signed up for a ...

The Times Literary Supplement
“The charm and vivacity of the writing match the mood of the trip.”

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Traveller
Colorful, practical guide, well illustrated with many astonishing photographs.

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From Library Journal
Although this book has about 300 very detailed maps everything from a map of Potala Palace to downtown Cheng-du it is essentially a travel guide rather than a history of mapping the Tibetan region, as the title may suggest. In the first chapter, the authors, all experienced travelers captivated by Tibet, are admirably forthright about the drawbacks of travel...

Book Description
Contains excerpts from literature on India, an introduction to palaces, museums, festivals, wildlife, and practical tips on clothing, trekking, and transportation.

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About the Author
Larry Snider is an attorney with a passion for photography who has been traveling over a 10 year period through China, Tibet, Bhutan and Ladkah taking portraits in remote areas attempting to capture cultures which will soon disappear. Larry’s photography has been exhibited extensively. He recently had a exhibit at the Kalamazoo Institute of Art and his work...

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About the Author
K.K. Gurung has a keen interest in the mammals of the Indian subcontinent and is the author of Heart of the Jungle, the definitive book on the wildlife of Royal Chitwan National Park, Nepal.

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From Library Journal
Bernstein, a professor of physics who spends his summers trekking in mountains, has expanded his 1970 travel book, The Wildest Dreams of Kew: A Profile of Nepal (LJ 4/15/70) . The new work is an overview of historical and present-day Nepal, Tibet, and Bhutan that most travelers will find adequate, and it presents a sympathetic, knowledgeable portrait of the ...

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Book Description
Memoirs portraying life in Tibet, Sikkim and Bhutan in the 1930s.

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From Publishers Weekly
Journalist Crossette visits the last remaining strongholds of Tantric Buddhism, examining the ways this culture has preserved its uniqueness amidst the homogenizing influences of contemporary geopolitics.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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From Library Journal
This updated and expanded edition now covers western Tibet and Bhutan and contains 14 maps (six more than in the original), a new appendix, a new selection of photographs, and glossaries for the Nepali and Tibetan vocabulary dispersed throughout the text.-- MR
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Ingram
Travelers to the Himalayan region will appreciate this complete overview which focuses on Tibet, the cultural heart of Inner Asia, as well as Nepal and Bhutan, where the cultures of the Tibetan world and the Indian subcontinent converge.

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