Founded in 996, Tabo monastery in the Himalayas is the oldest continuously functioning Buddhist temple in India, still retaining its extraordinary original...
In 1978 Peter Mathiessen undertook a Himalayan journey in search of the beautiful and elusive snow leopard and returned with one of literature's most celebrated accounts of the bonds between man and...
A comprehensive study of the cultural ecology, demography, and domestic organisation of the Tamang, the largest Tibeto-Burman speaking population of...
For nearly a century the two most powerful nations then on earth - Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia - fought a secret war in the lonely passes and deserts of Central Asia....
The fascinating diaries of Roerich's pioneering journeys through Tibet and the Himalayan kingdoms, undertaken in the 1920s. These writings offer a glimpse of the world that...
A fully illustrated book on the great Himalayan desert area - extending from Mustang in Nepal and including the Himalayan mountain districts of Ladakh, Lahul,...
Indian edition. This book presents the most important findings of recent historical research on Ladakh in the Indian Himalaya. It draws on contributions from...
A stunning photographic tour of this great cultural centre of the Himalayas both ancient and modern. The Kathmandu valley receives over half a million foreign tourists each...