Ladakh & Zanskar at 1:350, 000 on a contoured & GPS compatible, double-sided map from Nelles, now published on a light, waterproof & tear-resistant synthetic paper. Coverage extends from Kulu in the south to the Baltoro Range & the Nubra Valley in the north, with an inset extending the map westwards to include Srinagar, Jammu & Pathankot. Also provided is a street plan of Leh. The map shows the region’s mountainous topography by contours at 200m intervals with very effective relief shading, plus spot heights & mountain passes. In addition to roads & local cart tracks, trekking trails are also marked. Symbols indicate various facilities & places of interest including campsites, temples, hot springs & waterfalls, etc. Latitude & longitude lines are drawn at 10’ intervals. Map legend

Includes:: English. The street plan of Leh shows location of numerous hotels &

Includes:: an enlargement for the old town. This title supplements the publishers’ coverage of India on regional maps at 1:1, 500, 000
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Central Ladakh & Zanskar: Indus
- Zanskar
- Pangong area in a series of excellent topographic trekking maps from the Geneva

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Central Ladakh & Zanskar: Indus
- Zanskar
- Pangong area at 1:150, 000 in a series of excellent topographic trekking maps from

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Northern Ladakh & Zanskar: Brog-Yul
- Nubra
- Shyog area in a series of excellent topographic trekking maps from the Geneva

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Northern Ladakh & Zanskar: Brog-Yul
- Nubra
- Shyog area at 1:150, 000 in a series of excellent topographic trekking maps

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Southern Ladakh & Zanskar: Upper Zanskar
- Rupshu area at 1:150, 000 in a series of excellent topographic trekking maps from the
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Ladakh & Zanskar on a double-sided map at 1:175, 000 from the Kolkata/ Calcutta based Milestone Books, highlighting 20 trekking routes & showing the region’s road network. Coverage

Includes:: Nubra, the Indus valley, the Zanskar mountains, Tsomoriri Lake & Rupshu. Satellite-derived base provides a clear picture of the valleys & ridges of this mountainous region & gives spot-heights for peaks & passes in both metres & feet, but has no contour lines. Treks are graded into “popular” or “other”, indicating routes along roads; roads are classified as highways or secondary/jeep tracks. The map shows towns & villages, as well as campsites/herdsmen’s huts/seasonal settlements. Latitude & longitude lines are drawn at 5’ intervals.

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Ladakh & Zanskar region on a double-sided map at 1:300, 000 from Editions Olizane, printed on light, waterproof & tear-resistant plastic paper & illustrated with drawings of local landscape & cultural heritage. The map covers roughly the same area as the publishers’ highly acclaimed series of three maps covering the region at 1:150, 000. The base map, derived from satellite imagery, presents a vivid picture of the terrain, with numerous peaks named on it. The map shows local roads & mountain trails, & highlights 68 various places of interest, cross-referenced to a list which conveniently groups them into villages, palaces & forts, monasteries, sacred sites, low relief & steles, rock art sites, etc. The map has latitude & longitude cross-hairs at 12’. Fine drawings provide illustrations of local Buddhist structures & figures, steles, rock art & artefacts. Map legend & all the text are in English & French. ...

* From the 1930s to the new century, Doux Thibaut, one of Merle Collins` most memorable characters, negotiates a hard life on the Caribbean island of Paz. As a child there is the shame of poverty & illegitimacy, & there are the hazards of sectarianism in an island divided between Catholic & Protestant, the rigidity of a class & racial system where, if you are black, your white employer is always right-and only the ladies live upstairs. Doux confronts all such challenges with style & hidden steel. We leave Doux as an old lady moving between the homes of her children in Boston & New York, wondering whether they & her grandchildren really appreciate what her engagement with life has taught her. In these tender & moving stories, Merle Collins demands that we do not forget such lives. If ghosts appear in several of the later stories, they are surely there to warn that amnesia about the past can leave disturbed & restless spirits behind. In addition to the Doux stories, this collection restores to print an earlier ` Paz` story, Rain Darling, & their juxtaposition contrasts two very different responses to the hazards of life. ...

Meet Akhilandeswari, Akhila for short: forty-five & single, an income-tax clerk, & a woman who has never been allowed to live her own life
- always the daughter, the sister, the aunt, the provider. Until the day she gets herself a one-way ticket to the seaside town of Kanyakumari. In the intimate atmosphere of the all-women sleeping car
- the ` Ladies Coupe`
- Akhila asks the five women she is travelling with the question that has been haunting her all her adult life: can a woman stay single & be happy, or does she need a man to feel complete? This wonderfully atmospheric, deliciously warm novel takes the reader into the heart of women`s lives in contemporary India, revealing how the dilemmas that women face in their relationships with husbands, mothers, friends, employers & children are the same the world over.


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