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Author
Language
English
Description
"In the vein of Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild, a riveting work of narrative nonfiction centering on the unsolved disappearance of an American backpacker in India--one of at least two dozen tourists who have met a similar fate in the remote and storied Parvati Valley. For centuries, India has enthralled westerners looking for an exotic getaway, a brief immersion in yoga and meditation, or in rare cases, a true pilgrimage to find spiritual revelation....
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
More rugged and elevated than any other zone on earth, Himālaya embraces all of Tibet, plus six of the world's eight major mountain ranges and nearly all its highest peaks. Thirty-five percent of the global population depend on Himālaya's freshwater for crop irrigation, protein, and, increasingly, hydropower. It now sits seismically unstable, as tectonic plates consider to shift and the region remains gridlocked in a global debate surrounding climate...
Series
Criterion collection volume 93
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Led by the stern Sister Clodagh, a group of nuns tries to establish a convent in the Himalayas.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
The Himalayas were among the last places on Earth that homo sapiens came to inhabit. Now, join an international team of scientists as they climb to the world's highest tombs to unearth secrets of the people who settled these extreme environments.
Series
Choose your own adventure volume 1
Publisher
Distributed by Goldhil Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Benjamin, Crista, and Marco go on an adventure to the Himalayas to find their Uncle Rudy, who has gone missing in his quest to find a mythical Yeti creature. With 11 possible storylines, the adventure goes on and on...where and how it ends is up to you!
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A century after a yeti captures Lady Agatha Farlingham and takes her to a hidden valley to raise his motherless children, tourism threatens their peaceful existence and young Con and Ellen take these educated and civilized yetis across Europe to Lady Agatha's home in England.
Author
Publisher
Multnomah
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In these pages, Platt shares how he found a deeper, fuller hope on the other side of foundation-shaking questions like, 'Is Jesus really the hope of the world after all?' Platt realized that soul-piercing questions don't just demand answers. They require action. And that action, as we change our lives to resemble the way of Jesus, brings hope, light, and life to the world. This is your call to risk more, to let what breaks God's heart break yours,...
10) Good night Yeti
Author
Series
Publisher
Good Night Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Come join the snowy fun as we strap on our snowshoes and travel deep into the Himalayas in search of the elusive Yeti.
14) Karma of the sun
Author
Publisher
CamCat Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In the isolation of the Himalayas, the snows still fall, but they are tinged with the ash of a nuclear winter; the winds still blow, but they wail with the cries of ghosts. The seventh and final blast is near. As the world heaves its final breaths, the people of the Tibetan plateau-civilization's final survivors-are haunted by spirits and terrorized by warlords. Though the last of the seven prophesied cataclysms is at hand, young Karma searches for...
15) Lost horizon
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Fleeing war-torn China, a small planeload of people are hijacked to an idyllic valley in the Himalayas where time has virtually stopped. There Conway, a British diplomat, falls in love with a beautiful woman, and is asked to remain in Shangri-La as its new leader.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of her mother's death, Kalyani, a privileged and restless young woman from Bangalore, sets out for a remote Himalayan village in the troubled northern region of Kashmir. Certain that the loss of her mother is somehow connected to the decade-old disappearance of Bashir Ahmed, a charming Kashmiri salesman who frequented her childhood home, she is determined to confront him. But upon her arrival, Kalyani is brought face to face with Kashmir's...
17) Meru
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Three renowned climbers navigate nature's harshest elements and their own complicated inner demons to ascend Mount Meru, the most technically complicated and dangerous peak in the Himalayas.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
On April 25, 2015 a devastating earthquake rocked Nepal, wiping out villages and leaving thousands dead. Through eyewitness footage, expert interviews, and stunning graphics, this film reveals the anatomy of this megaquake while scientists race to answer urgent questions, is another big one coming?
Author
Series
R. J. MacCready volume 2
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Zoologist and adventurer Captain R. J. MacCready journeys to post-World War II Tibet to search for a legendary creature that may hold the secret to humankind's evolutionary future.
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