While providing an intimate look at Ladakh's traditional culture, Ancient Futures raises important questions about the psychological, social, and environmental costs of modernization. 

Ladakh is a place of few resources and an extreme climate. Yes, for more than a thousand years, it has been home to a thriving culture. Traditions of frugality and co-operation, coupled with an intimate and location-specific... (more)

Lying athwart some of the world's highest mountain ranges at the meeting-point of central and south Asia, Ladakh at the same time represents Tibet's endangered civilization, and constitutes a crossroads where Islam and Buddhism have met and blended to form a unique culture. This book contains a comprehensive account of the land and its people including a detailed analysis of recent political and economic change.

In between the sea and the plains of Bengal, on the easternmost coast of India, lies an immense archipelago of islands. Some of these islands are vast and some no larger than sandbars; some have lasted through recorded history while others have just washed into being. These are the Sundarbans - the beautiful lands. Here there are no borders to divide fresh water from salt, river from sea, even land from water. The tides... (more)

Often seen as a magical paradise at the end of the world, Bhutan is inaccessible to most travellers. Set against the dramatic scenery of the Himalaya, this beguiling memoir recalls hardships and happiness in a land almost untouched by the West.

When Britta Das goes to work as a physiotherapist in a remote village hospital, her good intentions are put to the test amid monsoons, fleas, and startling conditions. But as... (more)

Bhutan is a remote kingdom in the Himalayas, isolated from the outside world for three centuries. The western part has been opened to limited tourism, but the eastern part remains closed. Katie Hickman is one of only a handful of foreigners ever to penetrate these eastern lands. Her trip to Bhutan with photographer Tom Owen Edmunds took a year to set up. They journeyed from the capital Thimphu in the west to the easternmost... (more)

"Bhutan is a world that you had only hoped existed. Vertical prayer flags flutter in the breeze and men dressed in a traditional gho and Argyle socks stroll past yellow-roofed shrines." - Bradley Mayhew, Lonely Planet writer

Explore the majestic beauty of Bhutan with this new title in the Driving Holidays in the Himalayas series where the author visits, besides other places in this beautiful and pristine country, the gravity defying Taktsang Monastery. It includes driving maps for all sectors and a large state foldout map, detailed itineraries with costs, recommendations for accommodation and food and also discount coupons for meals at leading... (more)

Set in the 1960s, the heyday for the people of the Inner Mongolian grasslands, Wolf Totem celebrates a time when an age-old balance based on culture and tradition was maintained between the nomads, their livestock and the wild wolves who roamed the plains.

Beijing intellectual Chen Zhen volunteers to live in a remote nomadic settlement on the border of Inner and Outer Mongolia. There, he discovers an apparently... (more)