ASIAN ALPINE E-NEWS
Issue No 82. February 2021

Contents
Colin Monteath’s widely compiled catalogueof Rare Books on the explorations of Tibet
and neighboring regions

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Chortens above Dzongri, Kangchenjunga above, Sikkim
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EXPLORATION, NATURAL HISTORY &NAUTICAL.

TIBET & NEAR NEIGHBOURSDOGALOG #115

28th January 2021

" The lamas of Pemayangtse monastery in Pelling
believe that under the surface of a landscape lies
another world of even greater beauty and spiritualsignificance. They consider the high meadows of
Dzongri a beyul or hidden paradise, like Shambala.
Every monsoon, around the full moon in August, theyhold sacred ceremonies in the monastery's temple toworship the mountain deity Kangchenjunga.

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Simultaneously, a delegation of monks is despatchedto Dzongri, where they sit in meditation. One of thelamas told us they were guided by a wild yak.
Synchronised to the seasons these auspicious rites are
perfumed with the fragrant smoke of burning juniper
and rhododendrons. In all their colourful fertility, themeadows reveal a landscape of eternal organic bliss.
The austerities and penance of the monks aspire tovisions of this celestial realm and as the lamas sit inmeditation, their consciousness opens like the petalsof rhododendrons blooming in the mist.

Atop the ridge above Dzongri stand four stonechortens, three of which memorialise the ancient lamasof Yuksum, while the fourth commemorates the first
Chogyal of Sikkim. Silhouetted against the mist theylook more like a line of boulders than man-madeshrines. Higher up, when the clouds separate, theforbidding cliffs of a nearby mountain called Black
Kabru rise above the meadows and guard the whitecapped ranges beyond, including Kangchenjunga. Hereis a landscape full of symbols that pollinate a spiritual
imagination. Like an invisible network of fungal fibres,3

through which a forrest or meadow communicates,
hidden layers of reality connect us to a secret web offloral dreams."

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overlooked a hidden gem. Earlier Dogalogs
will be added later as many are enjoying thequotes, historical snippets and extra images
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED - Wild Himalaya, published inIndia, remains hard to track down. A Step away from
Paradise readily available, though as yet, not from Barking
Mad Books

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Wild Himalaya Stephen Alter The Himalaya span a distance ofroughly 2,500 kilometres in length and between 350 and
150 km in breadth, rising to a maximum height of almost 9
kilometres above sea level. In Wild Himalaya, award-winning
author Stephen Alter brings alive the greatest mountain range
on earth in all its terrifying beauty, grandeur and complexity.
Travelling to all the five countries that the Himalayan range
traverses—India, Pakistan, Bhutan, Nepal and China— Alter
braids together on-the-ground reports with a deep
understanding and study of the history, science, geology,
environment, flora, fauna, myth, folklore, spirituality, climate
and human settlements of the region to provide a nuanced
and rich portrait of these legendary mountains. Adding colour
to the narrative are riveting tales unearthed by the author ofsome of the range’s most storied peaks—Everest or
Chomolungma, Kanchenjunga, Annapurna, Dhaulagiri, Nanga
Parbat and others.

The book is divided into eight sections which delve deep into
particular aspects of the Himalaya. ‘Orogenesis’ explores theorigin, evolution, geology, geography and other such core
aspects of these mountains; ‘The Third Pole’ concerns itself
with weather, glaciers, wetlands and rivers; ‘Flora Himalensis’

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Migrants’ goes deep into the world of Himalayan birds andinsects; in ‘Mountain Mammals’ we cross high passes and go
above the treeline in search of brown bears, blue sheep andsnow leopards; ‘Ancestral Journeys’ takes a close look athuman settlement in the Himalaya and stories of origin andmigration, both ancient and contemporary; ‘At the Edge ofBeyond’ recounts epic adventures and great mountaineeringfeats; and, finally, ‘In a Thousand Ages of the Gods’ theauthor examines the essence of Himalayan art, folklore
and mythology as well as enigmatic mysteries such as theexistence of the Yeti, along with key questions ofconservation.

Although there have been hundreds of books, and somemasterpieces, about one or the other aspect of the Himalaya,
not one of them has come close to capturing theincredible complexity and majesty of these mountains. Until
now. In Wild Himalaya, Stephen Alter, who considers himself
an endemic species (having spent most of his life in thesemountains), gives us the definitive natural history of thegreatest mountain range on earth.

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A STEP AWAY FROM PARADISE - The true story of a
Tibetan lama's journey to a land of immortality. Thomas Shor.
It was the early 1960s. The place, a far-off corner of theHimalayas long fabled in Tibetan tradition to be hiding avalley of immortality among its peaks and glaciers-a real-life
Shangri-La. They waited generations for the prophesied lama
to come, the one with the secret knowledge of how to 'open'
the Hidden Land under Kangchenjunga. . Then, one day, hecame. His name was Tulshuk Lingpa.

This book tells the story of this charismatic visionary lamaand his remarkable expedition. Against the wishes of thekings of both Sikkim and Nepal, he and over three hundred
followers ventured up the snowy slopes of the third highest
mountain of the planet. Their aim: to open a crack in the very
fabric of reality and go to a land we would all wish to inhabit if
it were only there-a land of peace and concord.

Forty years later, the author spends over five years tracking
down the surviving members of this extraordinary expedition.
He deftly weaves their stories together with humor, wisdom,and scholarly research into Tibetan traditions of Hidden

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Potala Palace, exiled Dalai Lama's winter palace from Chagpo
Ri, autumn, World Heritage Site, Lhasa,
Tibet www.colinmonteath.nz

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LHASA THE HOLY CITY - F Spencer Chapman - Chatto &Windus, London, 1st UK Edn: 1938, Introduction by Sir
Charles Bell, original yellow cloth mottled, facsimile oforiginal dustjacket, fold-out map, numerous B&W & colour

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plates, Some internal foxing but overall a good solid copy ofa scarce book - English mountaineer Spencer Chapman
joined Charles Bell's delegation to Lhasa overland from
Sikkim past Chomolhari (Chapman later made the first
ascent). - $NZ140

Young monk, Karsha gompa, Zanskar & monk sits outside
Tashilunpo monastery, Shigatse, Tibet. www.
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TRANS-HIMALAYA - discoveries and adventures in Tibet Sven Hedin, McMillan's Empire library, 3 volumes, VG+ in
original dark blue cloth with bright gilt titles, First twovolumes 1909, third most scarce volume, often missing, 1913,
B&W plates, strangely no maps as issued, minor foxing, The
Swedish explorer devoted his third journey, 1906-8, to theregion lying between Shigatse and Leh and to the north of theBrahmaputra. He produced maps of the area, which had notbeen previously visited and revealed the existence of a large

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Tibetan side. Hedin visited the sources of the major Asianrivers that rise near Mt Kailas and Lake Manasarowar Lakes.
As fine bright copies of these scarce volumes as you'll everfind $NZ450

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Mani stone wall and chorten, en route Mt Kailas, Tibet.
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16PRISONER IN RED TIBET - Sydney Wignall, Hutchinson,
London, 1957, 1st edn., VG+ VG jacket, 260 page hardback,
B&W plates, map as endpaper...a strange story of a Welsh
Himalayan expedition in 1955 that climbed on the west
Nepal/Tibet border - taken by Chinese PLA soldiers for twomonths interrogation as spies - harrowing though their
humour helped them through..$NZ55 ...plus a modern reprintof the same book - $35.

Husband and wife ride to market in Tingri, Cho Oyu behind,
Tibet. www.colinmonteath.nz
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FROM MANCHURIA TO TIBET - A quarter century of
exploration - Wong How Man, Odyssey Publications, Hong
Kong, 1998, Large format square hardcover, VG+. First
Edition, original dustjacket.spine slightly faded, A superb
photo essay on the heartland of inner Asia starting in NE
China's Manchuria, then journeying westward through inner
Mongolia and south through Sinkiang, the Silk Road and thevast Tibetan Plateau. $NZ75

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TIBET HANDBOOK - A PILGRIMAGE GUIDE - Victor Chan,
Moon publications, USA 1st Edn., 1994, trade paperback 1100
pages, color topographical maps. also b&w maps, plans &19

illustrations. "60 major pilgrimage and trekking
itineraries.over 200 meticulously detailed maps andplans.complete introductory course in spoken Tibetan withdetailed phrasebook and grammar guide. " history of tibet.
geography. travel. tibetan buddhism and its sects. history oftibetan art. tibetan concepts of pilgrimage. yarlung dynasty.
jokhang. potala. princess wencheng. dragla lugug. rigsum
gonpo. pabonka.tsamkhung. tower of the turtle rock. chakpo
ri. gelugpa monasteries. ganden. drepung. sera. nechung.
tratsangs. lukhang. gesar lhakhang. tshalpa kagyupa
monasteries. samye mandala. drakyul. jinka. ritro. drak yerpa.
tendrom. rechung phuk. nyangto kyi phuk. levitation.
necropolises of the 7th & 8th centuries. sekhung tombs.
stone coffins of dhelekling. neolithic relics. kachu. yemar.
dranang. shalu. gyantse castle. phalkor chode. tholing.
tsaparang, lost city of the guge kingdom. jonang, gyang
bumoche and jampaling kumbums. historic valleys east of
the kyi chu~tsangpo junctions. valley of the 13 buddha lamas.
tsong khapa's hermitage. sacred lakes. tolung valley. lodrak.
tsangpo gorges. mount namche barwa. holy places of the
prebuddhist bon. bonri. yungdrungling. menri. lake dranga.
mt targo. sikkim. shigatse. tashilunpo. sakya principality.
sakya monastery. mt eversest. kangshung. holy mountains of20

dingri. milarepa country. guge, purang and rutok. glossary.
tibetan festivals. iconography. bibiography. map index.
general index . One of THE best sources on Tibet NZ75.

EXPLORING THE HIDDEN HIMALAYA - Soli Mehta & Harish
Kapadia, Himalayan Club Diamond Jubilee 1928-1988, Hodder& Stoughton, London, 1990, 1st edn., VG+ hardback with VG
dustjacket, well illustrated & great maps...a climber'sreference book to Sikkim & Assam Himalaya, Kumaon &Garhwal, Kinnaur, Spiti, Kulu & Lahul, Kistwar, Kashmir,Ladakh & Zanskar and the Eastern Karakoram ....startplanning an expedition! $NZ65.

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Ngadi Chuli, Manaslu Himal, 7893m, at dawn from Lho-Sama
Gaon, Nepal. www.colinmonteath.nz

Unnamed peak, Hunza, Pakistan. www.colinmonteath.nz

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HIMALAYAN QUEST, Paul Bauer, Nicholson & Watson,
London, 1938, Translated from German, 1st UK edn., 150
page original red cloth hardback, black titles and front board

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decoration, superb B&W plates, great maps, previous owner's
signature on fep /slight cut to page, The German expeditions
to Siniolchum, Sikkim & Nanga Parbat - rare in this condition- $NZ115 (Bill King Collection)

IN THE HIGH HIMALAYAS, Hugh Whistler, H.F. G. Witherby,
London, 1924. 1st edn., 218 page hardback in original olive
green cloth, gilt titles and design, fep piece cut out., nosignatures or inscriptions, B&W photos by the author, sketch
map - Kulu, Lahul and Spiti regions of Indian Himalaya, thelatter considered by the author to be a part of Tibet andserving as a buffer area. Wonderful mountain travel, hunting,and observations of the people. $NZ350 (Bill King Collection)

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THE VALLEY OF FLOWERS, Frank Smthye, Hodder &Stoughton, London, true 1st edn., 1938, original green cloth,
gilt titles, colour plates protected by glassine pages, fold out
map, Smythes fascinating account of climbing, explorationand plant hunting in the Garhwal Himalaya and the Bhyundar
Valley. $NZ125 Reduced to $90 this Dogalog only

John Noel, mountain photographer and movie-maker, filming
from Chang la, 7300 metres, Chomolungma, Tibet

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John Baptist Lucius Noel (26 February 1890 – 12 March 1989)
was an English mountaineer and filmmaker best known for
his film of the 1924 Mount Everest expedition. Born in Newton
Abbot, Devon, England, Noel was educated in Switzerland,
where he fell in love with the mountains, and at the Royal
Military Academy Sandhurst. He was baptised Baptist Lucius
and added the name John by deed poll in 1908. He wascommissioned into the East Yorkshire Regiment in 1909 andposted to India.
Noel's regiment spent summers near the Himalayas and in1913 he travelled in disguise into Tibet in order to approach
Mount Everest. After serving in Europe during the First World
War, in 1919 he lectured about his travels near Everest to theRoyal Geographical Society. Sir Francis Younghusband used theoccasion to call for the ascent of Mount Everest in 1921. Noeleventually became a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society(FRGS). He joined the 1922 Everest expedition as its official
photographer and filmmaker and produced a short film,
Climbing Mount Everest (1922).
In 1924, Noel formed a private company which paid for thephotographic rights of that year's Everest expedition. Noelreached the North Col and used a specially adapted camera26

to film the ascent of the peak. A note from George Mallory to
Noel was the last contact with the lost explorer before his
body was discovered in 1999. The disappearance of George
Mallory and Andrew Irvine added drama to the film, The Epic ofEverest (1924), but it was not a commercial success.
Noel brought to London a group of Tibetan monks which
performed before screenings of the film; the performances ofthe "dancing lamas" offended Tibetan religious sensibilities
and caused a breakdown in diplomatic relations between
Britain and Tibet which became known as the "Affair of theDancing Lamas" and which lasted nearly ten years. Noellectured widely in North America and published a book about
his adventures, Through Tibet to Everest (1927).
After the first ascent of Everest in 1953, Noel lectured once
again about the mountain and his footage and photographs
appeared widely in many films and television programmes.
He was also the author of two early books on handgun
marksmanship.
In his later years, Noel restored old houses. He had one
daughter, Sandra. He died on 12 March 1989 (aged 99).

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Film clip in East Rongbuk by John Noel

Film Clip 1924 Everest Expedition (Lovely shots of Balu thebear - Charles Bruce)

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THROUGH TIBET TO EVEREST - Captain John Noel, Edward
Arnold, London, 1st UK Edn, 2nd imp December 1927 (same29format and binding as true 1st Edn), VG+, no dustjacket,
original blue cloth with gilt titles, bright & fine, Noel, a major
player (and official photographer) in the early British
expeditions to Chomolungma's North ridge summarises the1921, 22 and 24 expeditions. Scarce in this condition. $NZ250

British Everest Expedition 1924 postcard, produced by
expedition film-maker J.B.L Noel, hand carried to Darjeelingfor posting, Tibet & British Everest Expedition 1924 stamp
postcard, produced by expedition film-maker J.B.L Noel,
hand carried to Darjeeling for posting, Rongbuk ,Tibet. www.colinmonteath.nz
30Summit pyramid - North face, highlighting yellow band oflimestone and upper section of Hornbein couloir onright, Chomolungma from Central Rongbuk glacier.
www.colinmonteath.nz

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Early Everest books - great copies of most
titles available for browsing - link to Barking
Mad Books Chomolungma/Everest gallery - 91
titles in stock
Panchen lama - kidnapped - still missing

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THE SEARCH FOR THE PANCHEN LAMA, Isabel Hilton,
Viking, London, 1999 1st edn., 335 page VG hardback, goodjacket, sl sunned spine, B&W plates, The Tibet nominated 7

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year old boy dsignated to be the next Panchen Lama wastaken by Chinese security forces...and hasn't been seen
since...their own 'puppet' installed instead...a harrowing taleof cultural genocide written by a British journalist with deep
connections to Tibet - $NZ55

Himalayan blue poppy, Meconopsis spp, Kharta valley, Tibet& Jampa (or Quamba), Maitreya, or future Buddha, Jamkhang
Chenmo, seat of the Panchen Lama, Tashilhunpo, Xigatse,
Tibet. www.colinmonteath.nz

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A fine view...three lady travellers on journey to the Himalaya,hand tinted postcard from early 1900s. www.colinmonteath.nz
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IN EXILE FROM THE LAND OF THE SNOWS - John Avedon,
Michael Joseph, London 1984, 1st edn: VG+ with VG

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dustjacket. B&W plates and good map as endpapers. Still thebest written & most powerful account of Tibet's invasion andenslavement by China $NZ55. Reduced to $45 this Dogalog
only

FIRE UNDER THE SNOW - testimony of a tibetan prisoner Palden Gyatso, 1st Edn 1997.The Harvill Press, London,
hardback with original VG+ dustjacket, Mind-boggling
account of Gyatso's 33 year imprisonment by Chinese - anhorrific story. $NZ55

FEMININE GROUND, Janice Willis, Snow Lion Press, New
York, 1989, 164 page softbound, essays on women and Tibet $NZ55. Reduced to $45 this Dogalog only38

Travel and exploration library, old books on Tibet and Central
Asia - Reference library with quiet writing room available forresearch and expedition planners. www.colinmonteath.nz

The most important book on Tibet andenvirons in at least a decade

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MELTDOWN IN TIBET - Michael Buckley, - China's recklessdestruction of ecosystems from the highlands of Tibet to thedeltas of Asia., Palgrave, Macmillan, USA, 2014, 250 page
hardback, VG jacket, ex-lib but only one stamp, preface by
The Dalai Lama, This book is a game-changer in one's
understanding of how important Tibetan rivers are to much of
Asian populations and ecosystems. China's damming ofmany of these rivers (for its own fresh water and electricity) is
having an enormous downstream impact...a brilliant piece of
research - $NZ55.

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BEYOND SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET - Heinrich Harrer, Labyrinth
Press, London, 2007, 500 page hardback, as new in VG+
jacket, Superb autobiography, considering Harrer wrote it in
his late 80s and this is a translation, $NZ65. Reduced to $55
this Dogalog only

SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET, Heinrich Harrer, 1st edn., 8th imp
1955, Hart-Davis, London, Vg hardback with no internalmarks, VG+ jacket about as good as you'll find, B&W plates Classic tale of escape from British POW camp during WWII
and subsequent life in Lhasa, befriending the Dalai Lama. A
bestseller in its day but hard to find originals now in goodcondition $NZ55

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SEIN LEBEN IN TIBET - Peter Aufschnaiter, Martin Braunpublishers, Zurich, 1st Swiss/German edn., 2002, 207 page as
new hardback, maps, colour & B&W plates throughout, large
fold-out map of Lhasa - Text in German, After 7 years
Heinrich Harrer left Tibet, Aufschnaiter stayed on, marrying a
Tibetan. There is now an English edn., of this importantbiography...hence selling my German edn., scarce/small print
run $NZ120 Reduced to $105 this Dogalog only

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MOUNTAINS OF THE MIDDLE KINGDOM, Exploring the highpeaks of China and Tibet, Galen Rowell, Century publishing,London, 1st UK edition, 190 page large format hardback, VG
in VG jacket, one small tear at top, previous owner's
signature, richly illustrated in colour and B&W - a super blendof historical research with his own adventures over a numberof expeditions - a first class book $NZ65 ( Bill King
Collection)

MY TIBET, The Dalai Lama, Galen Rowell, Thames & Hudson,
1990, 1st edn, large format hardback VG+ with VG jacket, one
small tear, evocative/typical Galen Rowell colour images,
essay by The Dalai Lama who reflects on his past life andupbringing. $NZ65.

LHASA AND ITS MYSTERIES - Wiht a record of the British
Tibetan expedition of 1903-04, L. Austine Waddell, Doverpublications, New York, 1988, well done facsimile edition oforiginal 1905 1st edition - 8 maps, 185 illustrations, 530 page
softbound, VG+ , v minor foxing on page ends, none
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military incursion to Lhasa - (Arnold Heine Collection) $NZ60

Lake Manosarovar and Gurla Mandhata far right, 7700 metres,
2nd highest peak wholly within Tibet. www. colinmonteath.nz

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A MOUNTAIN IN TIBET - Charles Allen, Andre Deutsch,
London, 1982 1st edn., 250 page hardback with good jacket(sl sunned on front cover) profusely illustrated, maps,
previous owner's signature on fep, The search for Mount

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Kailas and thee sources of the great rivers of India - a greatpiece of research - $NZ55

THE SACRED MOUNTAIN - John Snelling, East West
Publications., London, 1983 First edition, hardback. Maps
inclulding endpaper maps, black and white illustrations, xi +241pp, bibliography, index, very good hardback copy industjacket with spine sunnned. Snelling has examined many
narratives of Western visitors to Mount Kailas, a mountain ina remote region of western Tibet which is venerated by four
great religions, Hindus, Buddhists, Jains and Bon-po, and asite of pilgrimage - a remarkable chronicle of the explorationof SW Tibet. A scholarly publication. $NZ60.

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Mt Kailas sunrise on eastern flank of the sacred peak, Tibet.
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TIBET, TIBET - A PERSONAL HISTORY OF A LOST LAND,
Patrick French - 1st edn., 333 page hardback, maps, as newwith VG+ jacket, Harper Collins, London, 2003, French has

53been involved in the Tibetan cause for 20+ years so this is asuperb piece of writing, part memoir, part history, part
travelogue, See the India gallery for a copy of his more recent
book INDIA, also $NZ55.

EAST OF LO MONTHANG IN THE LAND OF MUSTANG - Text
by Peter Matthiessen and photography Thomas Laird,
Shambala Press, Boston, 1996, large format 190 page
softbound, sunned spine, Perhaps the best introduction to
Mustang you'll find - $NZ65

HIMALAYAN PILGRIMAGE, A study of Tibetan religion by atraveller through Western Nepal, David Snellgrove, Bruno
Cassier publishers, London, 1st edn 1961, 300 page VG+
hardback in scruffy jacket, B&W plates, maps, - the earliest
detailed study of Dolpo, Mustang, Nar etc, Snellgrove isrecognised as the principal authority on this part of Nepal, avery scarce book - $NZ125

MUSTANG - a lost Tibetan kingdom - Michel Peissel, Collins,
London, 1968 1st UK edn., 288 page VG hardback with VG
jacket, v minor foxing, B&W and colour plates - one of theearliest accounts of a journey into Mustang by this French54

travel writer. $NZ55

HONEY HUNTERS OF NEPAL - Eric Valli & Diane Summers,
1988 1st edn., card covers, large format softbund
photographic book - remarkable documentation of honeyhunter gatherers from high cliffs in central Nepal outstanding piece of work - hard to find - $NZ135

Horsemen ride to festival, Southern Tibet.
www.colinmonteath.nz

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HELVELLYN TO HIMALAYA - Freddie Spencer Chapman,1941 Travel Book club edition, VG+ in Vg sl chipped jacket,
B&W plates - great biography...importantly, covers the first
ascent of Chomolhari in Tibet - a nice copy $NZ55
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NO PASSPORT TO TIBET, Lt-Col F. M. Eric Bailey, Rupert
Hart-Davis, London, 1st Uk edn., 1957, 295 page hardback inoriginal maroon cloth, Good jacket sl ragged at top andcorners, maps and B & W plates - superb exploration talearound the TsangPo gorges and Mt Namche Barwa - $NZ65

FIVE UNUSUAL TITLES ON TIBET

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MYSTIC TIBET & THE HIMALAYA - KAMALESH BHANJA,
Gilbert and Co., Darjeeling, 1st edn., 1948 VG 300 page
hardback in VG scarce jacket, B&W plates, history and60journeys around Darjeeling, Sikkim & Tibet - $NZ70

PORTRAIT OF THE DALAI LAMA - Charles Bell, Collins,
London, 1st edn., 1946, original orange cloth with gilt titles
and embossed design on front board, chipped but nearcomplete jacket, - a richly illustrated and well written
biography of the 13th Dalai Lama who Charles Bell knew wellduring his 20 year tenure in Lhasa. - $NZ90

THE PEOPLE OF TIBET, Charles Bell, Delhi, 1997 Indianfacsimile reprint of 1928 scarce original - 300 page
hardbound, no jacket as issued, A unique insight to the
Tibetan people and their culture. $55 (Arnold Heine
Collection)

THE PUNDITS - BRITISH EXPLORATION OF TIBET &CENTRAL ASIA - Derek Waller, Univ Press of Kentucky, 1st
US Edn., 1990 VG Hardback in Good dustjacket - B&W plateswith great maps. - The Pundit were Indians employed by the
British to make secret journeys across Tibet, Afghanistan andacross parts of Central Asia to make maps and gather
information useful to combat aspects of the Great Gameagainst the supposed advance of Russia - a remarkable piece61

of research. much of it new to me. Scarce in New Zealand$NZ80 ( Arnold Heine Collection)

LHASA AND CENTRAL TIBET - Sarat Chandra Das, Mehra
Press, Delhi, 1988 - 285 page softbound facsimile edition of
the very scarce 1902 first edition - edited by WW Rockhill Das was a pundit working for the British government - hetravelled to Lhasa in disguise, mapping and sketching - lovely
B&W fold-out plates of his observations while living in Lhasa$55 (Arnold Heine Collection)

TIBET - A CHRONICLE OF EXPLORATION - John MacGregor,
1st edn., Routledge & Kegan, London, original green cloth
370 page hardback VG, complete jacket though browned onspine, B&W plates, maps, thorough research on early
travellers to tibet, The Jesuits, Desideri, Bogle, Turner,
Manning, The Pundits, Russians, Younghusband etc uncommon $NZ65

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TIBET'S GREAT YOGI MILAREPA - W Evan's Wentz, Oxford
University Press, London, 2nd edn., 1951, original green cloth64

with gilt titles and decorations, 315 page hardback,booksellers stamp on fep, VG with foxing to endpapers,
overall v clean internally, colour and B&W plates - scholarly
work on life of Milarepa - a classic history of Tibetan culture$NZ85

THE WAY OF WHITE CLOUDS - Lama Anagarika Govinda,
Rider & Co., London, 1980, 300 page softbound, B&W plates,
minor water damage to two plates, remarkable pilgrimage
through Tibet pre-Chinese invasion $NZ45

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TO LHASA IN DISGUISE, Montgomery McGovern,
Butterworth, London, 1924 1st Uk edition, B&W plates 350
page hardback, rebound? in red cloth with gilt titles, somestains on front boards - a wonderfully written quixotic tale ofan American who finally gets to Lhasa - now, a hard to findbook - $75

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Stonemason carries rocks in bamboo basket, Marsayandi
valley near Manang , Annapurna Himal, Nepal.
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Buddha's warriors - simply, a terrific book timely in-depth research/interviews, superbly
written

68BUDDHA'S WARRIORS, Mikel Dunham, Penguin Books,
London, 430 page softbound edn., B&W plates, maps, The
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story of the CIA-backed Tibetan freedom fighters, The
Chinese invasion and the ultimate fall of Tibet - The author
has interviewed many of the elderly Tibetan freedom fighters
who based themselves in Mustang...just in time to create thisriveting, educational book. (Arnold Heine Collection) $NZ50.

Mikel Dunham speaking at book launch of Elizabeth Hawley's"The Nepal Scene" with Lisa Choegyal, Ambassador Boddeand Elizabeth Hawley in the background.

Mikel Dunham is an author, artist, photojournalist. andHimalayan historian. In the 1980s, Dunham worked in New

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York City where he created three-dimensional constructionsof wood, glass, mirror, photographs and acrylic media. The
Alexander F. Milliken Gallery, Inc. represented his work.
mounting numerous solo exhibitions in Soho, as well asgroup installations in the US and abroad.
The late 80s Dunham became the last student of the latethangka master, Pema Wangyal of Dolpo. He spent the next
four years learning how to mix mineral pigments, line-brushin 22-carat gold and paint Tibetan iconography This led toDunham's commission to paint the murals for a Tibetanmonastery in Sarnath, India—one of eight major pilgrimagesites for Buddhists. Dunham then became artistic director fora much larger Tibetan mural project—a three-year
commitment—in upstate New York at Pema Samye Ling
Monastery.
In 2000, the Vajrakilaya Foundation selected Dunham to travel
to Tibet and photograph Samye Tibet's first monastery.
Samye: A Pilgrimage to the Birthplace of Tibetan Buddhism(2004, Jodere Group), is the result of that assignment, aphotography book interspersed with the history of Bon, theaboriginal religion of Tibet, and the three men most
responsible for transforming Tibet into a tantric Buddhist

71nation: King Trisong Detsen, Padmasambhava andShantarakshita. The foreword to Samye is written by the Dalai
Lama.

In addition to Samye, Dunham has written two murder
mysteries: Stilled Life, in 1989 and Casting for Murder, in
1992.
In 2005, Dunham published Buddha's Warriors: The Story of
the CIA-Backed Tibetan Freedom Fighters, the Chinese
Invasion, and the Ultimate Fall of Tibet. Buddha’s Warriors is
a political Tibetan history based on seven years of interviews
with and the CIA Task Team who secretly trained the growing
Tibetan resistence movement in the late 1950s and early 60s.
(Foreword by H. H. the Dalai Lama.) Buddha's Warriors has
been translated into French under the title Les Guerriers de
Bouddha. The Japanese translation was published in 2007,
the Indian/Pakistani edition came out in 2008, the Tibetantranslation was published in 2009, the Czech translation was
published in 2011, and the Chinese and Hungariantranslations are currently under way.
In 2008, Le goût du Tibet was published in France, ananthology of articles about Tibetan culture, religion and72political history. Other authors included in the book are theDalai Lama, Sogyal Rinpoche, Pema Chodron, Henrich
Harrier, Alexandra David-Neel, Milarepa and Antonin Artaud,
among others.
In 2012, Caught in Nepal: Tibetan Refugees Photographing
Tebetan Refugees by Vajra Publications (Nepal). Part
photography book, part ruminations on the 2000-year-old
relationship between Nepalis and Tibetans, this book was theresult of Dunham having distributed digital cameras toTibetan refugees stranded in Nepal and was funded by theWilliam Hinman Foundation.
in 2015, The Nepal Scene: Chronicles of Elizabeth Hawley,
1988-2007 was published. Dunham was co-editor along with
Lisa Choegyal, Nepal's New Zealand Honorary Consul. This
political history is 2400 pages and published in a two-volume
set by Vajra Publications, Kathmandu. Dunham wrote thepostscript and was responsible for the book design andcover art.
Also in 2015, Dunham edited the English translation of The
Autobiography of Rookmangud Katawal''. He also wrote theForeword.

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Currently, Dunham is a correspondent for The Daily Beast.
Dunham has written articles for Harvard South Asian Journal,
Tricycle Magazine, and a four-part report on child prostitutetrafficking in Asia for Tehelka and interviewed by Radio Free
Asia, Asia Times, Times of India, Indian Express, among
many other magazines in Southeast Asia. Dunham plays anactive role in human rights issues.[ He was selected as aninternational observer during the 2008 April elections in
Nepal. Continual updates of the political situation in Nepal
and Tibet are posted on his website:
http://www.mikeldunham.blogs.com

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WONDERS OF THE HIMALAYA - Francis Younghusband,
John Murray, London, 1st edn., 2nd imp 1924, original VG
blue cloth, gilt titles, map and B&W frontispiece plate, foxing,- a travelogue covering journeys in Kulu, India, Srinagar,
Kashmir, over the Karakoram Pass to Yarkand etc - $NZ70

MODERN MYSTICS - Francis Younghusband, Joh Murray,
London, 1st edn., 1935, 315 page hardback (sl cant to spine)in original blue cloth, gilt titles, foxing, During the 1904
British incursion to Lhasa Tibet, an expedition led byYounghusband he experienced something of a religious
transformation...this book gives his views on Hindus,
Moslems...mass mysticism etc - $NZ65.

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Yaks loaded with religious books from gompa going fromhouse to house to bless future crops, Lhagu village, SE Tibet,
Kangri Garpo mountains. www.colinmonteath.nz

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EVEREST REVEALED - THE PRIVATE DIARIES AND
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Richly illustrated with Norton's colour and B&W
sketches...really superb insight to the early British Everest
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