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High into the remotest rocky wildernesses of the Himalayas we go with the author - a scientist and conservationist - who has been researching snow leopards for two decades.

The Ghost of the Mountains: Unravelling the Secrets of the Snow Leopar ...

Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi

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This signed first edition is in near fine condition with only minimal wear to the book and one or two small dents at the top of the dust jacket. A beautifully produced volume with elaborate ... read more

The Snow Leopard

Peter Matthiessen

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A superb account of mongibello, the 'mountain of mountains', with its slopes covered in prickly pears and pistachios, citrus groves and vineyards, a mosaic amongst the lava fields. By the au... read more

The Fire in the Mountain: Sicily, Etna and Her People ...

Helena Attlee

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Twenty-five years have passed since Roy moved from Delhi to a derelict cottage in the old hill station of Raniket.

Called by the Hills: A Home in the Himalaya

Anuradha Roy

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The author of the excellent Kathmandu sets out on four long hikes at different seasons to understand the fragile relationship of the mountain communities and their environments.

Human Nature: A Walking History of the Himalayan Landscape ...

Thomas Bell

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Kassabova's portrait of the once-nomadic shepherding life high in the Pirin Mountains of Bulgaria is powerful and moving: 'I am the last hole on the flute', she records one of the shepherds ... read more

Anima: A Wild Pastoral

Kapka Kassabova

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Kassabova's portrait of the once-nomadic shepherding life high in the Pirin Mountains of Bulgaria is powerful and moving: 'I am the last hole on the flute', she records one of the shepherds ... read more

Anima

Kapka Kassabova

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The 1,500-mile watershed stretching from Austria to Romania is still home to a third of Europe's wildlife, including lynx, chamois, bears, and bison that roam its high alpine meadows and its... read more

Walking Europe’s Last Wilderness: A Journey through the Carpathi ...

Nick Thorpe

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Inca priests, Gurkha riflemen, as well as the tweed-clad adventurers before Everest.

The White Ladder: Triumph and Tragedy at the Dawn of Mountaineering ...

Daniel Light

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A study of the way in which Vesuvius and the excavations in the Bay of Naples in 1738 and afterwards became a potent political and emotional vehicle for artists, intellectuals, Grand Tourist... read more

Volcanic: Vesuvius in the Age of Revolutions

John Brewer

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Fieni's remarkable 20-year restoration project of stunning Buddhist murals in Lo Manthang, high in western Nepal.

Tibetan Mustang: A Cultural Renaissance

Amy Heller

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A witness to the Beslan massacre, the former Moscow correspondent sought to ease his soul and deepen his understanding of the roots of violence by taking a 1000-mile walk along the political... read more

High Caucasus: A Mountain Quest in Russia’s Haunted Hinterland ...

Tom Parfitt

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This intensely lyrical and radical 'memoir' of the Cairngorm Mountains in Scotland was written in the last years of WW2, but only published in 1977. The long-overlooked Modernist novelist an... read more

The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotl ...

Nan Shepherd

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This intensely lyrical and radical 'memoir' of the Cairngorm Mountains in Scotland was written in the last years of WW2, but only published in 1977. The long-overlooked Modernist novelist an... read more

The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotl ...

Nan Shepherd

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The fragmented recollections of a handful of survivors of the earthquake that struck the northern Friuli in 1976. Their tiny village high in the Julian Alps, beneath the immense karstic mass... read more

Rombo

Esther Kinsky

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The Swedish dynamo has many hard borders to negotiate as she tries to travel the length of the southern watershed of the Himalayas.

High: A Journey Across the Himalayas, Through Pakistan, India, Bhutan, ...

Erika Fatland

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The Great Game has not changed though the players have: Keay looks at the history of this contested and remote area and at those that have roamed its wildernesses.

Himalaya: Exploring the Roof of the World

John Keay

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Two men go walking in the Dolomites, but not together; one falls to his death, the other reports the body. Is it coincidence that they knew each other in earlier years, and that one had betr... read more

Impossible

Erri De Luca

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Students and tutors started going here on reading parties in the 1890s, and still do so. Looks at Macmillan, Hailsham, Brooke, Betjeman, Waugh etc...

Oxford University on Mont Blanc: The Life of the Chalet des Anglais ...

Stephen Golding

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Up airy mountains and down rushy glens: Gill brings us culinary treasures from Kashmir and some more robust Ladakhi fare.

On the Himalayan Trail: Recipes and Stories from Kashmir to Ladakh ...

Romy Gill

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The first two of Pearson's graphic novels reissued in one volume. For anyone who has missed her, Hilda is a valiant young Scandinavian girl with blue hair and a predilection for trolls. Nort... read more

Hilda: The Wilderness Stories

Luke Pearson

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Five times winner of the Foyles Young Poets award, Mort is also a keen climber. Hereshe reflects on that passion from the position of new motherhood.

A Line Above the Sky: On Mountains and Motherhood

Helen Mort

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Breathtaking shots from the Himalayas to the Dolomites, via Africa, Patagonia, Alaska... with suitably lofty quotations (Dante, Byron, Austen, Nietzsche et al) alongside them.

Mountains: The Giants of the Earth

Massimo Zanella

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The Bulgarian/Scottish writer explores the mountainous fringe of North Macedonia, Albania and Greece along the via Egnatia (which, astonishingly, joined the via Appia to link Rome with Byzan... read more

To the Lake: A Balkan Journey of War and Peace

Kapka Kassabova

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