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Author : Bob Gibbons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Himalayan Kingdoms, Nepal, Bhutan and Sikkim written by Bob Gibbons and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan Gregson
Publisher : Pan Macmillan Adult MM
ISBN 13 : 9780330376914
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (769 download)
Download or read book Kingdoms Beyond the Clouds written by Jonathan Gregson and published by Pan Macmillan Adult MM. This book was released on 2001 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the numerous Himalayan kingdoms and princely states that survived until the British left India, only two - Nepal and Bhutan - are now fully-fledged sovereign states. The others have been annexed or otherwise 'integrated' into their larger neighbours. Yet in many cases, the royal family survives and remains the focus of local traditions and loyalties. Jonathan Gregson has travelled widely throughout the Himalayan region, to Bhutan, Nepal, Sikkim, Mustang and Dharamsala, in search of their kingly rulers. Kingdoms Beyond the Clouds is the story of these journeys and of his conversations with these often elusive leaders - some of whom scarcely ever grant interviews to outsiders. 'A delightful and thought-provoking read about a fascinating part of the world' Mark Tully
Author : Vishal Singh
Publisher : Primedia Elaunch LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781635871944
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (719 download)
Download or read book The Himalayan Kingdoms written by Vishal Singh and published by Primedia Elaunch LLC. This book was released on 2019-06-02 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up in a village sheltered by the Himalayan mountain range, Om learned the most mysterious secrets the forest could offer. Now, under the wing of the great guru Rishi Rig Muni, he prepares to learn even more about warfare.But as Om embarks on his quest to become a divinely-blessed warrior, Rishi will reveal a dangerous world of intrigue. Beyond his village, demons roam the hills, and the lurking creatures are beginning to mass against Om's people. After an age of peace, three conquering kings have returned, more powerful than ever, ready to enact their vendetta against the Himalayan kingdoms.It will take all his wits and every friend he can find to enlist an army. But can Rishi, Om, and his new companions defend the Himalayan kingdoms against the rising army of demons?The mission is beyond belief-the consequences of failure, unspeakable. The Himalayan Kingdoms features a folklore-inspired adventure suitable for all ages, featuring adventures, romance, and treasures beyond imagining!
Author : Andrew Duff
Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 0857902458
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)
Download or read book Sikkim written by Andrew Duff and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2015-05-14 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the true story of Sikkim, a tiny Buddhist kingdom in the Himalayas that survived the end of the British Empire only to be annexed by India in 1975.It tells the remarkable tale of Thondup Namgyal, the last King of Sikkim, and his American wife, Hope Cooke, thrust unwittingly into the spotlight as they sought support for Sikkim's independence after their 'fairytale' wedding in 1963. As tensions between India and China spilled over into war in the Himalayas, Sikkim became a pawn in the Cold War in Asia during the 1960s and 1970s. Rumours circulated that Hope was a CIA spy. Meanwhile, a shadowy Scottish adventuress, the Kazini of Chakung, married to Sikkim's leading political figure, coordinated opposition to the Palace. As the world's major powers jostled for regional supremacy during the early 1970s Sikkim and its ruling family never stood a chance. On the eve of declaring an Emergency across India, Indira Gandhi outwitted everyone to bring down the curtain on the 300 year-old Namgyal dynasty. Based on interviews and archive research, as well as a retracing of a journey the author's grandfather made in 1922, this is a thrilling, romantic and informative glimpse of a real-life Shangri-La.
Author : Michael Hawley, Jr.
Publisher : Big Books for Little People
ISBN 13 : 9780974246932
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (469 download)
Download or read book Bhutan written by Michael Hawley, Jr. and published by Big Books for Little People. This book was released on 2004-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BHUTAN is a smaller companion volume to the world's largest published book, the 5x7' photographic book called BHUTAN. This book opens to nearly three feet, and offers an eyeful of imagery from several expeditions across the legendary mountain kingdom. Teams from MIT and Friendly Planet traveled extensively with two young people, Choki Lhamo (age 14, a girl from Trongsa who aspires to be a doctor) and Gyelsey Loday (also 14, son of the head lama in far-off Phongmey). This book shares a bit of their beautiful corner of the world. Proceeds are largely tax-deductible and are donated to help Bhutan's schools and scholars.
Author : Awadhesh C. Sinha
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0429685688
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)
Download or read book Dawn of Democracy in the Eastern Himalayan Kingdoms written by Awadhesh C. Sinha and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the beginnings of democracy in the three Himalayan kingdoms of Sikkim, Nepal and Bhutan. Charting the mobilisations and political experimentations that took place in the former buffer states under monarchies to establish democratic regimes, this book investigates their varying degrees of success, and offers a critical commentary on the consequent socio-political histories of this region. The volume sheds light on the nuances of their different geo-political contexts of the three Himalayan states, while tracing the social origins of the movements. It also undertakes a close analysis of the political participation and leadership involved to understand their achievements and limitations. A comprehensive analysis of a hitherto unexplored chapter in South Asian history, it will be of an immense interest to scholars and researchers of international relations, modern history, sociology and social anthropology, politics, South Asian studies, area studies, especially Nepal and Himalayan studies, as well as policy makers and government think tanks.
Author : Jon Burbank
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789812321404
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Himalayan Kingdom written by Jon Burbank and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Himalayan Kingdom is home to some of the most spectacular mountains in the world. Fascinating civilisations with long and glorious histories have sprung-up amidst the dizzying snow-capped heights and the dry, windswept plains beyond them. Sandwiched between China and India, the rich cultures of Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan, Sikkim and Ladakh have nonetheless developed their own unique place in human history, and continue to flourish into the 21st century. Visitors often remark how everything in the Himalayas is tinged with the divine, how the mountains are a fitting backdrop to the teachings of Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam, all of which converge in the Himalayas. Here, where mountain meets man, and man God, eternal dramas are played out: dramas in which the seasons bring rain, the earth yields produce, and man celebrates nature's bounty: dramas in which good and evil clash: dramas of birth, death, reincarnation, enlightenment and spiritual release.
Author : Barbara Crossette
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030780190X
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book So Close to Heaven written by Barbara Crossette and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-08-03 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A travelogue of Bhutan and its neighbors in the Himalayas that introduces readers to a world that has emerged from the middle ages only to find itself peering into the abyss of modernity. "For anyone with a serious interest in Buddhism, it's essential reading" (Washington Post Book World). For more than a thousand years Tibet, Sikkim, Ladakh, and Bhutan were the santuaries of Tantric Buddhism. But in the last half of this century, geopolitics has scoured the landscape of the Himalayas, and only the reclusive kingdom of Bhutan remains true to Tantric Buddhism.
Author : Francoise Pommaret
Publisher : Odyssey Books & Maps
ISBN 13 : 9789622177024
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Bhutan written by Francoise Pommaret and published by Odyssey Books & Maps. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the rooftop of the world, shoe-horned into the Grand Himalayas, Bhutanor Thunder Dragonis a fiercely independent kingdom. Isolated, charming, peaceful and religious, the Bhutanese are a pragmatic, sensitive people who take from the West what will benef
Author : Bob Gibbons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780870524646
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (246 download)
Download or read book The Himalayan Kingdoms written by Bob Gibbons and published by . This book was released on 1987-01 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bruce Kirkby
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1643135694
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)
Download or read book Blue Sky Kingdom written by Bruce Kirkby and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A warm and unforgettable portrait of a family letting go of the known world to encounter an unfamiliar one filled with rich possibilities and new understandings. Bruce Kirkby had fallen into a pattern of looking mindlessly at his phone for hours, flipping between emails and social media, ignoring his children and wife and everything alive in his world, when a thought struck him. This wasn't living; this wasn't him. This moment of clarity started a chain reaction which ended with a grand plan: he was going to take his wife and two young sons, jump on a freighter and head for the Himalaya. In Blue Sky Kingdom, we follow Bruce and his family's remarkable three months journey, where they would end up living amongst the Lamas of Zanskar Valley, a forgotten appendage of the ancient Tibetan empire, and one of the last places on earth where Himalayan Buddhism is still practiced freely in its original setting. Richly evocative, Blue Sky Kingdom explores the themes of modern distraction and the loss of ancient wisdom coupled with Bruce coming to terms with his elder son's diagnosis on the Autism Spectrum. Despite the natural wonders all around them at times, Bruce's experience will strike a chord with any parent—from rushing to catch a train with the whole family to the wonderment and beauty that comes with experience the world anew with your children.
Author : W. Brook Northey
Publisher : Asian Educational Services
ISBN 13 : 9788120613294
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (132 download)
Download or read book The land of the Gurkhas, or, The Himalayan kingdom of Nepal written by W. Brook Northey and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 1998 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kamal Bawa
Publisher : Felis Creations Pvt Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9781615845125
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (451 download)
Download or read book Himalaya written by Kamal Bawa and published by Felis Creations Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2013 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Eastern Himalaya -- land of Gods, of ancient mountain kingdoms, of icy peaks and alpine meadows -- is like no other place on Earth. The life and landscapes of the region are as diverse, spectacular, and fragile as the mountains themselves. Even today, these mountains hold many mysteries: unnamed species, primeval cultures, and the promise of magical cures to heal all of humanity. This book takes us on a journey of biocultural discovery -- from the great canyon of Yarlung Tsangpo and the Siang Gorge in the east to the Kali Ganda ki Gorge in the west. Along the way, the book demonstrates, in breathtaking imagery and words, why the preservation of this heritage is so important -- not just for us, but for the future of all life on Earth.
Author : Steve Berry
Publisher : Vertebrate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1909461113
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Straight Up written by Steve Berry and published by Vertebrate Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in the foothills close to the Himalaya Steve Berry had from an early age an urge to become a traveller, an adventurer, an explorer, and until the age of thirty-eight years he tried hard to satisfy two opposing forces. Half of him wanted to find a satisfactory career path while the other half wanted to be free and specifically explore the Himalaya. In the end he found a compromise to satisfy both needs. In 1987 with his climbing friend Steve Bell he founded Himalayan Kingdoms, a travel company specialising in trekking and expedition holidays. This book is a collection of stories from his early expeditions to the Himalaya prior to 1987. There are tales of encounters with bears, escapes from avalanches, summit successes and failures, love stories mystical connections, Himalayan storms, near death accidents, raw travel across the Indian sub-continent, and grapples with bureaucracy. It is told warts and all. It starts with tales of youthful naivety in the mountains of Himachal Pradesh, progresses to what Steve describes as his best ever adventure, the first British ascent of Nun, 7,135m/23,410ft, in Kashmir, and finishes with the truth of what happened on the failed attempt to climb Bhutan's highest peak, Gangkar Punsum, 7550m/24,770ft. Of Straight Up Steve says: 'I just really wanted people to enjoy reading of our adventures the way they were.'
Author : Pradyumna Prasad Karan
Publisher : Princeton, N.J. : Van Nostrand c1963.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Himalayan Kingdoms: Bhutan, Sikkim, and Nepal written by Pradyumna Prasad Karan and published by Princeton, N.J. : Van Nostrand c1963.. This book was released on 1963 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Gibbons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780882548029
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Himalayan Kingdoms written by Robert Gibbons and published by . This book was released on 1983-07-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Murray Gunn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789881900258
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Dragon Bones written by Murray Gunn and published by . This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wedged deep in the Himalaya between India and China, the secretive kingdom of Bhutan guards its independence while its neighbors have been swallowed by the giants. Bhutan markets itself as the last Shangri-La, but a closer look shows crime, discrimination and religious manipulation. Murray Gunn and his French wife came to understand Bhutan better while living there for two years - but risked their marriage in the process. A travel memoir of discovery and change.
