Recommended
Reading
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The market is
saturated with books on Nepal. Good general books include Peter Matthiessen's
The
Snow Leopard, a beautifully written account of the author's pilgrimage
to Dolpa to track the elusive cat; and Peter Somerville-Large's engagingly
dotty To the Navel of the World, which chronicles his adventures
through Nepal's uncharted lands. Try also Pico Iyer's Video Night
in Kathmandu, a collection of essays which has a chapter on the
collision between Nepalese tradition and Western culture.
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Recent histories
are limited but Fatalism & Development - Nepal's
Struggle for Modernisation by Nepalese anthropologist Dor Bahadur
Bista is a good place to start. There are more up-to-date books on the
country's natural history, including K K Guring's The Heart of the
Jungle, George Schaller's Stones of Silence -
Journeys
in the Himalaya and Robert Fleming Sr et al
Birds of Nepal.
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Good introductions
to Nepalese art can be found in Lydia Aran's The Art of Nepal
and Hallvard Kare Kuloy's Tibetan Rugs, while facets of the
country's culture are revealed in People of Nepal by Dor
Bahadur Bista and Festivals of Nepal by Mary Andersen.
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Mountaineering
breeds either writers or braggarts, judging by the number of publications
written after every first ascent of a Himalayan peak. Often choosing which
account to read can become one's own personal Everest, but H W Tilman's
Nepal
Himalaya, Chris Bonington's Annapurna South Face
and Mark Anderson's On the Big Hill should steady the nerves.
Otherwise, try The Ascent of Rum Doodle by W E Bowman - a
classic mountaineering tall story.
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