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Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

If you had the money and the time and the necessary level of fitness, would you climb Mount Everest? Would you climb it “because it’s

While the Gods Were Sleeping: A Journey through Love and Rebellion in Nepal, by Elizabeth Enslin

I devoured this in about three days when I had lots of other work I should have been doing. While the Gods Were Sleeping is

Forget Kathmandu, by Manjushree Thapa

The best, and first book that anyone should read, on Nepal. I wish I had read this as soon as I had arrived in Kathmandu,

Mustang: A Lost Tibetan Kingdom, by Michel Peissel

This was the perfect book to accompany me on the Poon Hill trek in the Annapurna region that I did a couple of weeks ago.

Road to Katmandu, by Patrick Marnham

I had seen this book for sale in Canberra’s Academic Remainders Bookshop while I was waiting to hear whether I’d got the job I wanted

Mustang Bhot in Fragments, by Manjushree Thapa

Any book nerd who has spent enough time in Canberra knows that the most exciting (twice-) annual event (yes, even more exciting than Floriade) is

Secret Places: New Writing from Nepal, ed. Frank Stewart, Samrat Upadhyay, and Manjushree Thapa

Another gem courtesy of the Canberra Lifeline Book Sale. This special edition of Manoa, a literary journal produced by the University of Hawai’i, is one of the