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Item EXNPL62. Buy these 4 items as a set for $84 Stephen Bezruchka including shipping, 15% off the retail price. With free Altitude Illness: Prevention and shipping on anything else you order. Treatment 2005, PAPER, 128 PAGES, $8.95 The Snow Bezruchka, a mountaineer and M.D., includes case studies, frequently asked questions and 2008, PAPER, 368 PAGES, $17.00 The most perceptive, acutely observed and simple methods of diagnosis and treatment in personal of all his books, Matthiessen’s account this indispensable pocket guide. (Item REF02) of a five-week journey through Nepal with Mary-Jo O’Rourke (Editor) naturalist George Schaller combines their quest for the elusive cat with a moving introduction Lonely Planet Nepali Phrasebook to Buddhism and the people and culture of the 2014, PAPER, 260 PAGES, $9.99 A palm-sized guide to pronunciation, grammar . (Item NPL03) and essential vocabulary for the traveler. (Item Stephen Bezruchka NPL62) Trekking Nepal, A Traveler’s Guide 2011, PAPER, 448 PAGES, $29.95 Alexandra David-Neel A respected guide covering route planning, My Journey to Lhasa national parks, health, where to go and what 2005, PAPER, 317 PAGES, $14.99 to do in Nepal. With an overview of the Dressed as a humble pilgrim and traveling geography, history, religion and culture of the under the cover of night, the indomitable region. (Item NPL10) 55-year-old David-Neel and her young companion climbed mountains and tricked Lonely Planet soldiers in order to ultimately reach ’s Lonely Planet Nepal forbidden capital. Originally published in 1923, 2015, PAPER, 416 PAGES, $29.99 this account stands as a riveting portrait of With up-to-date advice on what to see and early 20th-century Tibet. (Item TBT26) skip, this handy travel companion to Nepal features color maps and images, suggested Broughton Coburn (Editor) itineraries and a listing of festival dates. (Item Himalaya, Personal Stories of NPL28) Grandeur, Challenge and Hope on the Nelles Roof of the World 2006, HARD COVER, 256 PAGES, $35.00 Nepal Map This beautifully photographed overview of the 2012 MAP $13.95 , , geology, history and people of the Himalayas A double-sided map at a scale of 1:500,000, includes contributions by several NatGeo with insets of Kathmandu City and photographers, introductions by Jimmy Carter Kathmandu Valley. (Item NPL01) and the Dalai Lama, and an afterward by Sir Edmund Hillary. (Item HML78) Thomas Bell Kim Stanley Robinson Kathmandu Escape from Kathmandu 2016, HARD COVER, 352 PAGES, $29.95 2000, PAPER, 320 PAGES, $21.99 Drawing on his years of experience in the The four interconnected stories in this laugh- Himalayan fortress, Bell introduces readers to out-loud novel include the (mis)adventures of Kathmandu’s layered history, touching on gods two young Americans with a Yeti, international and goddesses and the caste system as well as espionage, mountain climbing of the highest the present-day push toward modernization sort and a quest for Shangri-La. (Item NPL41) and the recent, devastating earthquake. (Item NPL94) Daphne Beal In the Land of No Right Angles Wade Davis 2008, PAPER, 278 PAGES, $13.95 Into the Silence Beal evokes the grit of Kathmandu and the 2011, PAPER, 656 PAGES, $17.95 emotional intricacies of trying to do good in In this thrilling portrait of George Mallory and the world in this tale of a young American fellow climbers, Davis vividly recreates Britain’s student abroad, an older expat and a young heroic attempts to scale Everest in the 1920s, village woman whose life they change forever. putting the whole enterprise into the context (Item NPL60) of World War I and British Imperial ambitions. (Item HML101) Frank Kingdon-Ward, Tom Christopher (Editor), Jamaica Kincaid (Introduction) Levison Wood In the Land of the Blue Poppies Walking the Himalayas 2003, PAPER, 242 PAGES, $19.00 2016, HARD COVER, 304 PAGES, $27.00 Expert Tom Christopher presents excerpts Explorer Levison Wood recounts his six- from intrepid Kingdon-Ward’s fascinating month, 1,700-mile trek through , accounts of plant-hunting adventures in Tibet, Kashmir, , India and into the foothills Burma and the Himalayas in the early 20th of the Himalayas, describing the landscapes, century. (Item ASA35) people and dangers that he meets along the way. (Item HML142) Bikram Grewal Photographic Guide to Birds of the Maurice Herzog Himalayas Annapurna, The Epic Account 1999, PAPER, 144 PAGES, $15.95 of a Himalayan Conquest and its A pocket guide to 250 birds found from the Harrowing Aftermath foothills up to high elevations ranging from 2010, PAPER, 256 PAGES, $16.95 the and Kashmir to Arunachal A 60th-anniversary edition of Maurice Pradesh in the Eastern Himalayas. With brief Herzog’s classic, which he dictated from his descriptive information, maps and 260 full- hospital bed in Paris. French Minister of Youth color illustrations. (Item HML31) and Sport in the 1960s and former mayor of Chamonix, Herzog recovered nicely. (Item HML07) TO ORDER Jon Krakauer Into Thin Air, A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster 1999, PAPER, 360 PAGES, $16.00 2838 Vicksburg Lane In this bestseller, climber and journalist Plymouth, MN 55447 Krakauer reconstructs a minute-by-minute [email protected] account of what went wrong on the great www.longitudebooks.com mountain in 1996. (Item HML13) Standard shipping charges (via USPS Media Mail): Jeff Greenwald $5.95 for first book, $1 per additional book up to a maximum of $10.95. Snake Lake 2010, PAPER, 384 PAGES, $15.95 Book prices, shipping charges and availability subject to change. A touching memoir by journalist Greenwald Checks, Visa, MasterCard, AmEx and Discover accepted. who returns to his old haunts in Kathmandu during the Maoist uprising. He struggles to Call (+1) 800 342 2164 or go to balance his journeying with obligations to his reading.longitudebooks.com/6E59 depressed brother back home in the United States. (Item NPL75) © 2017 Longitude Rev 3/17