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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Encapsulating, with atypically, luxurious detail, the phenomenon of consumer society, obsessed with image, fashion & instant ...

Peter Popham`s major new biography of Aung San Suu Kyi draws upon previously untapped testimony & fresh revelations to tell the story of a woman whose bravery & determination have captivated people around the globe. Celebrated today as one of the world`s greatest exponents of non-violent political defiance since Mahatma Gandhi, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize only four years after her first experience of politics. In April 1988, Suu Kyi returned from Britain to Burma to nurse her sick mother but, within six months, found herself the unchallenged leader of the largest popular revolt in the history of Burma. When the party she co-founded won a landslide victory in Burma`s first free elections for thirty years, she was already under house arrest & barred from taking office by the military junta. Since then, ` The Lady` has set about transforming her country ethically as well as politically, displaying dazzling courage in the process. Under house arrest for 15 of the previous 20 years, she has come close to being killed by her political enemies & her commitment to peaceful revolution has come at extreme personal cost. In November 2010, after fraudulent elections in which she played no part, Suu Kyi was again freed. She was greeted by ecstatic crowds but only time will tell what role this remarkable woman will have in the future of her country. ...

Peter Popham`s major new biography of Aung San Suu Kyi draws upon previously untapped testimony & fresh revelations to tell the story of a woman whose bravery & determination have captivated people around the globe. Celebrated today as one of the world`s greatest exponents of non-violent political defiance since Mahatma Gandhi, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize only four years after her first experience of politics. In April 1988, Suu Kyi returned from Britain to Burma to nurse her sick mother but, within six months, found herself the unchallenged leader of the largest popular revolt in the history of Burma. When the party she co-founded won a landslide victory in Burma`s first free elections for thirty years, she was already under house arrest & barred from taking office by the military junta. Since then, ` The Lady` has set about transforming her country ethically as well as politically, displaying dazzling courage in the process. Under house arrest for 15 of the previous 20 years, she has come close to being killed by her political enemies & her commitment to peaceful revolution has come at extreme personal cost. In November 2010, after fraudulent elections in which she played no part, Suu Kyi was again freed. She was greeted by ecstatic crowds but only time will tell what role this remarkable woman will have in the future of her country. ...

This title features an introduction by Blake Motrrision. Clifford Chatterley returns from the First World War as an invalid. Constance nurses him & tries to be the dutiful wife. However, childless & listless she feels oppressed by their marriage & their isolated life. Partly encouraged by Clifford to seek a lover, she embarks on a passionate affair with the gamekeeper, Mellors. Through their liaison Lawrence explores the complications of sex, love & class. Written in 1928 & subsequently banned, ” Lady Chatterley`s Lover” is one of the most subversive novels in English Literature. ...

Banned & vindicated, condemned & lauded, ” Lady Chatterley`s Lover” is D.H. Lawrence`s seminal novel of illicit passion & forbidden desire. This ” Penguin Classics” edition is edited with notes by Michael Squires & an introduction by Doris Lessing. Lady Constance Chatterley feels trapped in her sexless marriage to the Sir Clifford. Paralysed in the First World War, Sir Clifford is unable to fulfil his wife emotionally or physically, & encourages her instead to have a liaison with a man of their own class. But Connie is attracted instead to Oliver Mellors, her husband`s gamekeeper, with whom she embarks on a passionate affair that brings new life to her stifled existence. Can she find true love with Mellors, despite the vast gulf between their positions in society? One of the most controversial novels in English literature, ” Lady Chatterley`s Lover” is an erotically charged & psychologically powerful depiction of adult relationships. In her introduction Doris Lessing discusses the influence of Lawrence`s sexual politics, his relationship with his wife Frieda & his attitude towards the First World War. Using the complete & restored text of the Cambridge edition, this volume

Includes:: a new chronology & further reading by Paul Poplawski & notes by Michael Squires. D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930), novelist, storywriter, critic, poet & painter, was one of the greatest figures in 20th-century English literature. Lawrence published ” Sons & Lovers” in 1913, but ” The Rainbow”, completed in 1915, was declared obscene & banned two months after first publication; & for three years he could not find a publisher for ” Women in Love”, which he completed in 1917. His last novel, ” Lady Chatterley`s Lover”, was published in 1928, but banned in England & America. If you enjoyed ” Lady Chatterley`s Lover”, you might like Gustave Flaubert`s ” Madame Bovary”, also available in ” Penguin Classics”. ”A brave & important book, passionate & wildly ambitious”. (” Independent on Sunday”). ”A masterpiece”. (” Guardian”).

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November 1925 found David & Frieda Lawrence on the Italian Riviera, looking for sun, sea air, & health. The Lawrences were exhilarated by life in their rented villa, set amid olive groves & vineyards, with a view of the sparkling Mediterranean. The drab English winter couldn`t have been farther away. But before long Frieda found herself irresistibly attracted to their landlord, a dashing Italian army officer, & the resulting affair served as the background for Lawrence`s writing: while in the villa, he turned out two stories, ” Sun” & ” The Virgin & the Gypsy, ” both prefiguring ” Lady Chatterley`s Lover” in their depiction of women fatally drawn to earthy, muscular men. Built on the unpublished, & previously unexplored, letters & diaries of Rina Secker, the Anglo-Italian wife of Lawrence`s publisher, & featuring never-before-published letters from Lawrence, ” Lady Chatterley`s Villa” reconstructs the drama of the tempestuous marriage, & the ways it fired Lawrence`s creativity. Along the way, Richard Owen offers a new accounting of Lawrence`s passion for Italy, tracing his travels along the coasts & islands & his deep engagement with Italian culture. This exploration of a little-studied, but crucial period of the writer`s life will be a must for Lawrence`s many fans. ...