The Last Barbarians

Politics & Social Sciences

MICHEL PEISSEL

Anthropology

Souvenir Press

Forty years ago Tibet was a closed, forbidden and mysterious continent, one that only a handful of foreigners had been able to visit. Michel Peissel has dedicated all those years to unlocking the secrets of this continent within Asia. He has led 26 expeditions to survey the far flung and often forbidden reaches of this magical realm, covering the length and breadth of Greater Tibet. In 1964, he 'discovered' the minute kingdom of Mustang and, more recently, in 1994 he led an expedition to find the source of the Mekong River. Michel Peissel is one of the great explorers of our time and in this book he brings to life the geographical, spiritual and intellectual heart of Tibet through first-hand accounts of his travels.

Tibet : The Secret Continent

Travel

Asia

Cassell Illustrated*

Peissel details his travels by foot through the remote, almost unknown Himalayan kingdom of Zanskar where he was welcomed in the homes and monasteries of a wise and happy people whose way of life has not changed for centuries

Zanskar: The Hidden Kingdom

History

E.P.Dutton

The grizzly bear is one of the 24 creatures featured in this book. Also included are the notoriously temperamental Cape Buffalo; the jaguar, known to native South Americans as "the carnivore that overcomes its prey in a single bound"; the leopard, & the African elephant, baboon, black rhinoceros, cougar, duckbill platypus, ferret, gorilla, hyena, killer whale, leopard, lion, peccary, pit bull terrier, polar bear, porcupine, rat, short-tailed shrew, solenodon, tiger, vampire bat, & wolf. This volume of The Encyclopedia follows the trails of some of the most feared & ferocious creatures on Earth. Includes information on treatment & prevention of injuries from these animals.

Dangerous Mammals: The Encyclopedia of Danger

Missy Allen

Sports & Outdoors

Chelsea House Pub

Tibet, le pèlerinage impossible

Martinière (De La)

Mustang, royaume tibetain interdit

<p>An astonishing biographical narrative of Boris for whom the world is his oyster. Few can have lived such a rich and varied life: whether he was hunting man-eating tigers, taking part in an anthropological expedition to Hollywood with two fabulously wealthy maharajas, or playing an important part in the coronation of a Nepalese king. From a childhood spent with a wealthy family in Tsarist Russia to a career as owner of a first-class hotel in Kathmandu in the shadow of Mount Everest is a long and colorful road. It is the road taken by Boris Lissanevitch, the extraordinary central character of this book, a road that led him as a young boy into hardship and battle in the Russian Revolution, to a career as a famous dancer with Diaghilev's Ballet Russe, to Calcutta in the glittering days of the British Raj, where he helped found and manage the exclusive 300 Club and finally to the beautiful kingdom of Nepal with its ancient civilization virtually untouched by Western life. Rarely does a book come along with a subject of such variety, power and humanity, rarer still is an author capable of doing such ample justice to his subject Michel Peissel captures all the drama of Boris's extraordinary exploits. He recreates the brillance of Diaghilev's circle, the misery and terror of the Revolution, the high noon of British India, amking his story an adventure in time as well as space. Above all he does justice to the personality of Boris himself - a personality which has cast its spell over people of all nations and levels of society who have come into contact with him, from waiters to manarchs and from maharajas to mountaineers. It is a spell that will captivate and enrich the reader himself.</p>

Tiger For Breakfast : The Story of Boris of Kathmandu (New Revised Edition)

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