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Tibet
The Land; Flora and Fauna; The People, Culture and Society; The Rise of the Tibetan Nation; A Golden Age; Religion; The Exploration of Tibet; Plunder and Destruction; Tibet and Its Future; Further Reading
Tiger for Breakfast
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Zanskar
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The Last Barbarians
More than thirty years ago, Michael Peisel's classic, Mustang: A Lost Tibetan Kingdom, introduced the world to a region more isolated than the deepest Amazon. Against the odds--and in the tradition of the nineteenth-century explorers of whom he is a direct descendant--Peissel has combed Tibet for forty years and has come to know one of the last nomadic peoples on earth to live with what he calls a "Stone Age memory." In 1994, seizing the rarest of opportunities to journey deep into occupied Tibet, he accomplished what scores of Western explorers had tried and failed to do for more than a hundred years: He found the source of the Mekong River in the ice-strewn fields on the "roof of the world...
Tibetan Pilgrimage
Containing nearly 100 watercolour illustrations, this text reveals the elegance, variety, and originality of Tibetan architecture in all its splendour.
The Ants' Gold
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Mustang
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Lords and Lamas
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In the Land of Giants
‘The imagination has its sanctuaries, too.’ High up in the Hindu Kush, between the ancient pagan Kalash people and the new medievalists of the Taliban, a charismatic young Spaniard, Jordi Magraner, made his home, mastering the local languages and customs before meeting his death in the most mysterious way. In this magisterial book, Gabi Martínez sets off in Jordi’s footsteps to the land of the giants in order to try to solve the riddle of this murder and of Jordi’s life. Jordi Magraner was a brilliant student of the natural world, whose lab was the ravine and the scarp and the tent. His observational investigations led him to places where the legendary barmanu had been sighted, and ...
