Hydrangea aspera Villosa Group
This is a large or medium-size shrub, sometimes a small tree, from China and Tibet. It is characterised by the large flattened flower heads on arching stems in late summer and autumn, each 15cm (6in) head comprising a mixture of tiny fertile blue ... [... more]
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Wisdom of Tibet 2009 Wall Calendar
 Wisdom of Tibet Wall Calendar: This new wall calendar for 2009 features a dozen color photographs of the Tibetan landscape and people with quotations. [... more]
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Sacred Images of Tibet 2009 Wall Calendar
Sacred Images of Tibet Wall Calendar: Classic images of authentic Tibetan thangka paintings open a sacred doorway into the world of Tibetan Buddhism. This Sacred Images of Tibet wall calendar features handsomely displayed meditative images of buddhas, [... more]
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Tibet 2009 Wall Calendar
Tibet Wall Calendar: This wall calendar features a dozen photographs of the beautiful country of Tibet. Tibet's colorful history and culture are celebrated throughout the year. [... more]
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Magic Places 2009 Wall Calendar
Magic Places Wall Calendar: From Tibet to Guatemala, from Russia to Myanmar, and beyond, this calendar travels the globe in search of power spots where sacred structures have enhanced the human communion with other realms. Natural and man-made places [... more]
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Himalayan Pilgrimage 2009 Wall Calendar
Himalayan Pilgrimage Wall Calendar: On the slopes and plains surrounding the snow-clad Himalayas, Buddhist and Hindu cultures carry on centuries-old traditions. Kathmandu-based photographer Thomas L. Kelly here presents twelve of his revealing portraits [... more]
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Magic Places (French/Spanish) 2009 Wall Calendar
Magic Places Wall Calendar: From Tibet to Guatemala, from Russia to Myanmar, and beyond, this calendar travels the globe in search of power spots where sacred structures have enhanced the human communion with other realms. Natural and man-made places [... more]
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Tom Christopher
During the first years of the twentieth century, the British plant collector and explorer Frank Kingdon Ward went on twenty-four impossibly daring expeditions throughout Tibet, China, and Southeast Asia, in search of rare and elusive species of ... [... more]
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Vikram Seth
Vikram Seth's previous books include three poetry collections, a libretto, the travel memoir After two years as a postgraduate student at Nanjing University in China, Vikram Seth hitch-hiked back to his home in New Delhi, via Tibet. . Born in ... [... more]
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The Descent
In Tibet, while guiding trekkers to a holy mountain, Ike Crockett discovers a bottomless cave. When his lover disappears, Ike pursues her into the depths of the earth...In a leper colony bordering the Kalahari Desert, a nun and linguist named Ali ... [... more]
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Dalai Lama
Born in 1935 into a farming family in northeastern Tibet, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama was recognized early in his life as a reincarnation of the thirteenth Dalai Lama. By age four, he was enthroned in Lhasa. During the 1950s, the political ... [... more]
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Patrick French
Patrick French was born in England in 1966 and studied literature at Edinburgh University. He is the author of Younghusband, Liberty or Death and Tibet, Tibet, and is a winner of the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, the Royal Society ... [... more]
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