Nanda Devi: A Journey to the Last Sanctuary

Surrounded by 20,000 foot peaks which effectively seal off the mountain at their center, the Nanda Devi Sanctuary was virtually impenetrable. But in 1934 Eric Shipton and Bill Tilman made the first of their great Himalayan expeditions by forcing a way up the river gorge. In 2000, the Sanctuary was entered for one single visit. Hugh Thomson was offered a place on this unique expedition led by Eric Shipton's son, John Shipton and the great Indian mountaineer, Colonel Kumar. This journey forms the basis of the book. Woven through it are all the amazing stories that surround the mountain—a powerful blend of myths and politics.

Nanda Devi: A Journey To The Last Sanctuary

Travel

Thomson, Hugh

Asia

Orion Pub Co

Alistair Horne begins his absorbing account by examining Napoleon’s rise to prominence against the background of the French Revolution. He describes Napoleon’s brilliance as a general and strategist, culminating in the Battle of Austerlitz, one of the greatest military campaigns of all times. He goes on to discuss the cultural achievements of the Napoleonic era both in France and abroad before charting Napoleon’s downfall and his bitter defeat at Waterloo in 1815. The book ends with a discussion of Napoleon’s legacy and the myths that have sprung up around this most controversial of French leaders. Horne’s book is popular history at its very best – a gripping narrative, enriched by fascinating anecdotes, told by one of the world’s leading authorities on the subject.

The Age of Napoleon (Universal History S.)

History

HORNE, Alistair

World

Lali and her husband Freddy Horstmann, a retired diplomat, were living at the end of the war at Kerzendorf, an elegant eighteenth-century house in a small park, fifteen miles east of Berlin. This book tells the story of the last months of the war under the desperate and demoralised Nazis and the terrifying arrival of the Russians. It ends tragically in early 1946 when the secret police arrive and take Freddy Horstmann away.First published in 1953, Nothing for Tears evokes the mixture of fear and violence, deprivation and gratitude, gallantry and sometimes even gaiety, of that time. Quietly and simply told, it is an eloquent and heartbreaking story.

Nothing for Tears

Religion & Spirituality

Horstmann, Lali

New Age & Spirituality

The great upheavals of the twentieth century have completely altered the shape of Europe, and Europe’s role in international affairs. George Lichtheim analyses the profound changes in intellectual, artistic and religious awareness which were both cause and consequence of the decay of traditional bourgeois-liberal culture. Factors such as nationalism, socialism, the European civil war between communist and fascist movements after 1919, and the decline of the nation state are interwoven with concerns such as changes in the quality of life and the rise of technocratic forms of government to create a compelling and comprehensive account of European civilisation between 1900 and 1970. First published in 1972 as part of Weidenfeld &amp; Nicolson’s History of Civilisation series.

Europe in the 20th Century

Lichtheim, George

Most scientific disciplines experienced fundamental revolutions during the twentieth century. But not archaeology. However its time has come. More and more highly specialized scientists are taking over the investigation of the past. Using satellites, aircraft and helicopters, they are screening entire regions around the world in an attempt to find hidden traces of early societies. What's more, their discoveries are changing our views of prehistoric civilizations - and the new views are often in complete contrast to archaeology's established schools of thought. It is becoming increasingly clear that the ancients knew more than we expected - perhaps more than we can imagine. And for the first time we are gaining a proper understanding of many of the age-old questions about the past. What was the effect of the volcanic eruption of Thera? What caused the collapse of the Minoan kingdom on Crete? Did Atlantis ever exist? Where was the cradle of Western civilization? In The Future of the Past, the geoarchaeologist Eberhard Zangger addresses these and many other questions. He takes the reader into the field to look at various excavations around the world; explains current thinking in archaeological research; and explores the sophisticated method and techniques that have only recently become available and the unique insights gained from applying them. The result is a refreshingly novel view of the past and a glimpse of the future of archaeological science.

The Future of the Past

Politics & Social Sciences

Zangger, Eberhard, Ph.D.

Archaeology

This is the Cinderella story of Mercury Asset Management, the despised and unwanted offspring - of the merchant bank S.G. Warburg - which went on to outperform them all. When the author was appointed chairman of Warburg Investment Management in 1979 he was told by his boss, Sir Siegmund Warburg, that his first task was to get rid of it. It was an embarrassing appendage and would never amount to anything. Fortunately no one wanted it. By the early 1980s it began to grow rapidly and, renamed Mercury Asset Management, it gathered astonishing momentum in the rest of that decade. By the mid 1990s it had over 100 billion [pounds] in funds and was the largest UK fund manager, responsible for 5 per cent of all investment in UK equities. This is a book about changing times in the City of London, about risk and innovation, and a great British success story. It covers the period in which investment management emerged from the shadows of merchant banking as a valuable business in its own right. But above all, it is a book about people.

City Cinderella

Darling, Peter Stormonth

Business & Money

LOST SOULS begins with the discovery of the body of a small girl, dressed as an angel, concealed in a pile of autumn leaves. It looks as if the child might have been the victim of a hit and run. It's Halloween. The streets had been full of children. But how did a three-year old come to be hiding there alone in the dark, dressed only in her flimsy costume? And why were the child's feet bare? A ghastly crime, a bungled cover-up, several guilty secrets, innocence defiled, a community isolated, a lowering landscape across which a host of dysfunctional characters stalk, a twisting plot and Michael Collins's uniquely stylish and blackly humorous prose make this latest novel a gripping read. As always the landscape and people are vividly evoked. This novel is full of unforgettable images from its haunting and chillingly beautiful beginning to its brilliant denouement.

Lost Souls

Literature & Fiction

COLLINS, Michael

Literary

Lady Violet Bonham Carter, daughter of the Liberal prime minister H. H. Asquith, and herself a leading Liberal, was described by Winston Churchill in 1951 as 'one of the very best speakers, male or female'. She was also a writer of distinction, Clement Attlee praising her 1965 biography of Churchill: 'Amazing that her first book, at 78, should be so good.' Its intended sequel was never written, but here, is the raw material for a worthy successor.'Winston has many faults but he is the one great forest tree that still stands’ she wrote in 1950. ‘When I am with him I feel the perspective of history'. That 'perspective' is vividly captured here and a galaxy of political stars comes into view - Attlee 'feeling the Atlas weight of his responsibility' as prime minister; Anthony Eden, 'accomplishing his own destruction by the suicidal blunder of Suez'; Harold Macmillan, 'How little I dreamed that he would ever blossom into "Super-Mac"'; President Kennedy, 'Above all I had the sense of greatness - in a greater degree than I have felt it about anyone since I first met Winston at the age of 19'. These are also the writings of an active politician with an international standing – an ardent campaigner for a United Europe: 'If we fail one realises suddenly that one is looking on at the suicide of a civilisation'; above all, a passionate Liberal struggling to save her party from extinction, and contemplating a deal with the Conservatives: 'But can one buy survival with dishonour?'

Daring to Hope: The Diaries and Letters of Violet Bonham Carter, 1946-1969

Bonham Carter, Violet

Biographies & Memoirs

Set in the period of the barbarian invasions. Its hero is a young Roman nobleman named Marcus, the son, according to one legend, of the Archangel Michael. Marcus undergoes extraordinary experiences as he searches for meaning and stability in a twilight world where the old gods are dead or dying, but their mysteries still attract, and the new religion is threatened by new barbarisms. Marcus’s journeys take him over the empire, from Italy to Greece and Byzantium, to the camp of Alaric the Goth and the wastes of the northern forests, from a Christian monastery to the horde of Attila the Hun. His is a world where everything is possible and nothing solid, a world that is full of danger and mystery, of love and terror, of simple faith and abstruse philosophy, of cruelty, strange perversions, treachery and undaunted courage.

The Evening of the World

MASSIE, ALLAN

Genre Fiction

Presents geological, genetic, linguistic, archaeological, and anthropological evidence that mankind developed from an ancient "founder civilization" located in Southeastern Asia

Eden in the East: The Drowned Continent of Southeast Asia

Oppenheimer, Stephen

Ancient Civilizations

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