Author: Jonathan Neale
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Keywords: himalaya
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2004-08-30
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 061841200X
ISBN-13: 9780618412006
The kids from Lost at Sea are back, climbing in the majestic and dangerous peaks of Nepal. Orrie is so mad at her dad and his girlfriend, Libby, that she can’t see straight. Orrie’s brother Jack is trying to prove he’s a real man, so the girls back at school won’t laugh at him. Their little brother, Andy, is talking to a dead yak, who is listening very carefully. The entire family is freezing to death at 20,000 feet. This nail-biting adventure novel about a family full of love and anger, told in the unique alternating voices of the witty and earnest Jack and Orrie, will keep reader
Author: Michael Palin
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Keywords: himalaya
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-06-17
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0312341628
ISBN-13: 9780312341626
Michael Palin’s travel books have repeatedly topped the bestseller lists. In this book he is back at his adventurous best tie-ing in with a major BBC TV series. The book/series will travel through many countries little known to the West, providing opportunities for Palinesque adventures to please the large and loyal audience who followed 80 Days, Pole to Pole and Full Circle.
Author: A.K. Pandit
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Keywords: himalaya, ecosystems, freshwater
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1998-12-15
List price: $149.95
ISBN-10: 1850707820
ISBN-13: 9781850707820
This is a graduate-level textbook and reference book that evaluates in detail all the interrelated aspects of freshwater ecosystems. It uses data drawn from research in the physical, chemical, biological, and socioeconomic sciences and focuses on wetlands and the Dal Lake ecosystem in the Kashmir to as representative of areas currently threatened by eutrophication and over-exploitation as a result of increasing human pressures. The book contains ten major chapters dealing with the geology and climate of the Kashmir valley, abiotic and biotic components of wetland ecosystems, the physico-chemic
Author: K.S. Valdiya
Publisher: Sangam Books Ltd
Keywords: evolution, emergence, himalaya
Number of Pages: 148
Published: 2002-03-07
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 8173713979
ISBN-13: 9788173713972
Author: Bill Aitken
Publisher: Sangam Books Ltd
Keywords: himalaya, footloose
Number of Pages: 258
Published: 2003-01-01
List price: $36.95
ISBN-10: 8178240521
ISBN-13: 9788178240527
This book chronicles the author’s extensive travels through the Himalaya. For him, travel in the Himalaya is as much about the spirit as about landscapes, leeches and aching knees. This sets him on a lively trail of holy men, both saintly and fraudulent, across all the pilgrim centres of the Himalaya. He travels in bulging buses to Rishikesh and Badrinath, Kedarnath and Gangotri. He seeks out tiny disused temples to little-known deities like Anasuiya, and discovers a village with temples dedicated to Duryodhana. he spends seven ascetic years in an ashram at Mirtola. All along he gropes f
Author: K. S Valdiya
Publisher: Universities Press
Keywords: monographs, educational, himalaya, dynamic
Number of Pages: 178
Published: 1998
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 8173710945
ISBN-13: 9788173710940
Author: Garry Weare
Publisher: Lonely Planet
Keywords: walking, himalaya, indian, trekking
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2009-11-01
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 1740597680
ISBN-13: 9781740597685
Lonely Planet Knows the Indian HimalayaOur expert author, trekking the Indian Himalaya since 1970, will be your guide to some of the world’s most awesome trekking. This book covers the region’s top treks, through the Buddhist villages and high passes of Ladakh, the spectacular mountains and verdant valley of Himachal Pradesh, and the sacred pilgrimage sites and high-altitude meadows of Uttarakhand. Whether you are an experienced trekker or a first-timer, you’re sure to find the ultimate trekking experience here.In This Guide:Everything you need to know to get preparedComprehe
