India
The
Age of Kali: Indian Travels and Encounters
by William Dalrymple
(Paperback -- April 2000)
The
Colours of Southern India
by Barbara Lloyd
Far away from the Taj Mahal, the Red Fort, and other tourist destinations
of the north lies another India: the lush and beautiful Southern States.
In Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, and Goa, dazzling colors
are a natural result of a hot climate and fertile landscape, but they are
also deeply symbolic in so spiritual a country, where blue is for both
Vishnu and brilliantly colored saris, red for Lakshmi and blazing hot chilis,
yellow for good luck and golden turmeric, and green for Hanuman and vibrant
rice fields. Swaying palms and garlands of flowers, painted bullock carts
and caparisoned elephants--these are but a few examples of the visual treat
recorded in Barbara Lloyd's ravishing photographs, in which even the white
of jasmine petals, the black of cooking pots, and the earth tones of temple
sculpture glow with an inner radiance. For anyone fortunate enough to have
visited this region, The Colours of Southern India will evoke powerful
memories of a magical land. For the armchair traveler, the photographs
provide a near-perfect substitute for the real experience. The Publisher
Paperback - 160 pages (September 1999)
Thames & Hudson; ISBN: 0500281343
Alchi : Ladakh's Hidden Buddhist Sanctuary : The Sumtsek
by Roger Goepper
Listed under Tibet
Benares
Seen From Within
by Richard Lannoy
Hardcover (October 1999)
University of Washington Press; ISBN: 029597835X
Berlitz
India (Berlitz Pocket Guides)
Paperback - 256 pages Pocket edition (July 1999)
Berlitz Multimedia; ISBN: 2831570506
Blue
Guide Southern India (Serial)
by George Michell (Preface)
Paperback - 576 pages (March 1998)
W W Norton & Co; ISBN: 039331748X
Bhutan : Kingdom of the Dragon
by Robert Dompnier
Listed under Bhutan
The
Business Guide to India
by Jitendra Kohli (Editor)
Paperback - 389 pages (March 1997)
Butterworth-Heinemann (Trd); ISBN: 9810070780
Special Order
Culture
Shock!: Sri Lanka
by Robert Barlas, Nanda Wanasundera (Contributor)
Paperback: Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co.
ISBN: 1558680691; (September 1991)
Culture Shock!: Nepal
by Jon Burbank (Editor)
Listed under Nepal
The
Desert Road to Turkestan (Kodansha Globe)
by Owen Lattimore
(Paperback -- March 1996)
Dos
and Don'ts in India: The Traveler's Guide to Culture
by Wilson Learning Corporation
Paperback - 10 pages (October 26, 1999)
Wilson Learning; ISBN: 1886806128
Eyewitness
Travel Guide to Delhi, Agra and Jaipur
by Anuradha Chaturvedi (Editor)
(Paperback -- September 1, 2000)
Eyewitness
Travel Guides: India
by Abha Narain Lamba
Book Description: DK's Eyewitness Travel Guides have increasingly
become the most sought after guides by seasoned and novice travels alike.
Featuring up-to-date information and spectacular 3-D aerial views -- all
photographed in full-color -- each location is shown at its best. Recognized
as the most unique and comprehensive travel guides on the market, Eyewitness
Travel Guides create the new standard for travels. Every guide in the series
is updated annually. 3-D aerial maps help you make the quickest journey
from one place to the next. Red star sights help you get the most out of
the shortest visit. Full-color photographs are taken specifically for each
travel guide, and cut-away & floor plans present unique drawings of
historic buildings and museums to show exactly where you are and what you
see. All the sights in each area are described in depth with special keyed
icons, and there's no need to buy an A-Z guide with our fully indexed street
maps. Eat and shop with confidence with our reliable listings of hotels,
restaurants, bars, and shops in all areas and at all prices. When it comes
to entertainment, Eyewitness Travel Guides contains complete listings of
theaters, music venues, cinemas, clubs, sports facilities, and activities
for children. A special survival guide shows you how to use local currency,
public transportation and telephones through pictures.
Paperback: 824 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.40 x
8.82 x 5.04
Publisher: DK Publishing; 1st edition (September 1, 2002)
ISBN: 0789483955
Firuzabad
: Palace City of the Deccan (Oxford Studies in Islamic Art, 8)
by George Michell (Contributor), Richard M. Eaton
Hardcover - 102 pages (September 1992)
Oxford Univ Press; ISBN: 0197280153
A
Guide to the Palace Hotels of India
by Cheryl Bentley
Paperback (October 1992)
Hunter Pub; ISBN: 1556505388
The Hunt for the Buru
by Ralph Izzard
The book chronicles a 1948 expedition into a remote valley in Assam,
where the inhabitants had only recently given up headhunting, on a quest
for the Buru, an elusive, monstrous reptile well documented by those native
to the area.
Listed under Cryptozoology
Henri Cartier-Bresson in India
Henri Cartier-Bresson (Photographer), Satyajit Ray
Listed under Cartier-Bresson
Journey
Toward the Cradle of Mankind
Guido Gozzano
Paperback (July 1996)
Northwestern Univ Pr; ISBN: 0810160080
Knopf
Guide India : Rajasthan : Jaipur, Bikaner, Jaisalmer, Jodhpur, Udaipur
and Mount Abu Kota, Bharaatpur (Knopf Guides)
Paperback (November 1996)
Knopf; ISBN: 0679765913
In
Rajasthan
by Royina Grewal
Paperback - 264 pages (February 1997)
Lonely Planet; ISBN: 0864424574
Footprint
India Handbook 2000 (India Handbook 2000)
by Robert Bradnock, Roma Bradnock
Paperback - 1488 pages 9th edition (November 1999)
Passport Books; ISBN: 084424841X
Fodor's
India (2nd Edition)
Paperback 2nd edition (May 1998)
Fodors Travel Pubns; ISBN: 0679034897
Fodor's
Exploring India (1998)
by Fiona Dunlop, Fodor (Editor)
Paperback - 288 pages (November 1998)
Fodors Travel Pubns; ISBN: 0679002715
India by Rail, 3rd Edition
by Royston Ellis, Samit Roychoudhury
Listed under Rail Travel
Lonely
Planet India (India, 9th Ed)
by Sarina Singh
Explore the myriad wonders of India with this useful guide in hand.
Whether you wish to cruise the backwaters of Kerala on the rooftop of a
ferry, explore the Buddhist gompas of Leh, drink Darjeeling's namesake
tea, get lost in the dusty bazaars of Hyderabad, or stroll the 16th-century
ruins in Hampi, this book will help you get there. Highlights include more
than 200 traveler-tested maps, thousands of places to stay and eat for
all budgets, excellent health information, all you need to know about transportation
options, and a 32-page color section on India's religions. --Kathryn True
- Amazon.com
Paperback: 1072 pages
Lonely Planet; ISBN: 1864502460; 9th edition (August
2001)
Nanda
Devi : The Tragic Expedition
by John Roskelley
(Paperback -- September 2000)
Listed under Mountaineering
Lonely
Planet Central Asia (2nd Edition)
by Bradley Mayhew, et al
(Paperback -- April 2000)
Lonely
Planet Rajasthan (Serial)
by Michelle Coxall, Sarina Singh
Paperback - 352 pages (January 1997)
Lonely Planet; ISBN: 0864424701
India
Unveiled
by Robert Arnett
(Hardcover -- January 1999)
Sorcerer's
Apprentice
by Tahir Shah
Tahir Shah has a genius for surreal travelling... I do most heartily
recommend this book. Doris Lessing.
Do you nurse the fond desire to try your hand--or feet, that is--at
firewalking? Go ahead. Tahir Shah writes in this beautifully conceived
and executed work of literary travel, "Contrary to popular belief, firewalking
is dead simple. The skin on the soles of the feet and the ash which covers
the coals are both poor conductors of heat. Anyone can do it." Do we dare
trust Shah's word on this point? Maybe so, maybe not, for, though another
character in his book bears the sobriquet, Shah is a superbly engaging
trickster. The English-born scion of Afghani nobility, Shah takes his readers
on a whirlwind trip across southern India that has at its heart one of
the most unusual missions in goal-directed travel literature: namely, to
find and learn the art of magic from one of India's greatest practitioners,
a mysterious fellow named Hakim Feroze. Finding the master in Calcutta,
Shah begs Feroze to accept him as a student; unfortunately, as we see,
Feroze does so, though not without hesitation. Shah takes us inside sorcery
boot camp, which involves strange drills such as digging a deep hole with
a dessert spoon, left-handed; separating dried rice and lentils blindfolded;
and catching a dozen cockroaches at once in a small tin mug. In recounting
his education, Shah reveals a few professional secrets. For one, the Indian
rope trick, that classic of conjuring, is effected not by legerdemain,
but by the use of hallucinogenic smoke. And as to snake charming, well,
90 percent of India's snakes are nonvenomous, and it's easy enough to find
a nonfatal variety that looks like one of the killer breeds. Full of conjures
and trickery, Shah's book offers an often humorous, sidelong education
in the dark arts and more: it brings readers along on a surreal tour of
India, affording a window to places well off the tourist track. It all
adds up to a first-rate adventure. --Gregory McNamee - Amazon.com
Hardcover: 336 pages
Arcade Publishing; ISBN: 1559705809; (June 2001) |
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The
Tiger Ladies : A Memoir of Kashmir
by Sudha Koul
(Hardcover -- May 2002)
In the Himalayas : Journeys Through Nepal, Tibet, and Bhutan
by Jeremy Bernstein
Listed under Nepal and the Himalayas
The
Rough Guide to South India (2nd Edition)
by David Abram, Beth Wooldridge, Charles Young
Book Description: INTRODUCTION
Though its borders are uncertain, there’s no doubt that
South India, the tapering tropical half of this mighty peninsula, differs
radically from the landlocked north. Stepping off a winter flight from
foggy Delhi into the glasshouse humidity of Chennai or Thiruvananthapuram
(Trivandrum), you enter a world far removed from the muted hues of Punjab
and the great Indian river plains. In the south, the coconut groves seem
a deeper green and the rice paddies positively luminescent, the faces are
a darker brown and the vermilion caste marks smeared over them arrestingly
red. The region’s heavy rainfall means that lush paddy fields
and palm groves patchwork the sun-bleached volcanic soils during all but
the hottest months. But under a sun whose rays feel concentrated by a giant
magnifying glass, the ubiquitous colours of South India –
of silk saris, shimmering classical dance costumes, roadside political
posters and frangipani flowers – radiate with a life of their
own.
South India’s three mightiest rivers – the
Godavari, the Krishna and the Kaveri – and their countless
tributaries, flow east across a low, fertile alluvial basin that has been
inhabited as long as anywhere in the subcontinent. Separated from the prehistoric
Indus valley civilizations of the northwest by tracts of barren hills...
Paperback from Rough Guides
Book Published: January, 2002 |
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Travelers'
Tales India
by James P. O'Reilly (Editor), Larry Habegger (Editor)
Paperback - 477 pages (January 1995)
Travelers' Tales Inc; ISBN: 1885211015
Cultural Atlas of India : India, Pakistan, Nepal, Butan, Bangladesh
& Sri Lanka
by Gordon Johnson
Hardcover - 240 pages (September 1996)
Facts on File, Inc.; ISBN: 0816030138
Out of Print - Try Used
Books
Lonely Planet India and Bangladesh (Lonely Planet Travel Atlas)
by Hugh Finlay, Bryn Thomas
Paperback - 164 pages (May 1995)
Lonely Planet; ISBN: 0864422709
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Books
Maharajas' Palaces : European Style in Imperial India
by Anne Garde (Photographer), Sylvie Raulet, Judith Hayward (Translator),
Laure Verniere (Contributor)
Hardcover - 297 pages (September 1997)
Vendome Pr; ISBN: 0865659893
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The Grand Trunk Road : A Passage Through India
by Raghubir Singh, Jean Deloche (Contributor)
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Ancient India : Land of Mystery (Lost Civilizations)
by Time-Life Books (Editor), Dale M. Brown (Editor)
Hardcover - 168 pages (March 1995)
Time Life; ISBN: 0809490374
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