I am always thrilled to come home to lovely surprises. And this is precisely what had happened last week after I returned home from a nearly fortnight-long work-related travels – a pile of travel books that are patiently waiting to…
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Category: Books, Talks and Rants
Tags: Book, coffee table, guide, Himachal, Himalayas, himanshu khagta, Kaza, khagta, life in spiti, mountains, Photography, review, Shimla, Spiti, travel book, winters
Ever since I sojourned on the wondrous and fascinating Andaman and Nicobar group of islands early this season, I have been wanting to know more about the history and geography of these tiny bits of lush green landmasses that are…
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Category: Books, Talks and Rants
Tags: andaman, bengali, Book, car nicobar, Green Islands of the Andamans and Nicobars, guide, havelock, India, meena gupta, nicobar, notionpress.com, port blair, protiva gupta, review, Talk, travel
A first for me on bNomadic, this time through this post I’ll share my views on two books – The Last Time I Saw Tibet and Mahatirtha Ke Antim Yatri – which are, in fact, translation of the same book…
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Category: Books, Talks and Rants
Tags: adventure, bimal dey, Book, China, Dalai Lama, Gangtok, Kailash Mansarovar, Lhasa, mahatirth ke antim yatri, Nepal, review, Sikkim, the last time i saw tibet, Tibet, Travelogue
As apparent from the title and book-cover itself, the book The Lost World of Ladakh is a collection of century-old photographs of the trans-Himalayan terrain of Ladakh. Tastefully captured by a talented amateur photographer, Claude Rupert Trench Wilmot who was…
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Category: Books, Talks and Rants
Tags: bates, Book, expedition, harman, Hemis, Himalayas, Karakoram, Kashmir, Kullu, Ladakh, Leh, review, the lost world of ladakh, Tibet, trade route, wilmot, yarkand
Adventure travel writing in Hindi language does not occupy much space in travel and adventure section of bookshelves as most travellers prefer to write in English language for its wider acceptance globally. Although, many would-be adventurers are increasingly taking up…
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Category: Books, Talks and Rants
Tags: ajay sodani, auden's col, Badrinath, Book, darra darra himalaya, Ganga, Gangotri, Garhwal, Himalayas, kalindi, Kedarnath, pass, review, travel, trek