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Agile Hands and Creative Minds: A Bibliography of Textile Traditions in South Asia
by Johnson, Donald Clay
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- 2000
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Bangkok: Orchid Press, 2000. This classed bibliography provides citations to all aspects of the hand crafted textile traditions of India, Nepal, Pakistan, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan. Topics include bibliographies and reference material, textile glossaries, museum, gallery and private collection publications, broad treatments of textiles, histories, accounts of the textiles of particular groups or made by various communities, religious… Read more about this item Item Price
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North of India
by Robertson, David
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- 1998
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- 9789748299082
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Bangkok: Orchid Press, 1998. Subtitled : 'Some 19th Century Europeans in the Himalayan Regions and Central Asia'. A compilation of the fascinating biographies of a number of 19th century Western travellers in the Himalayas and Central Asia, including Richmond Shakespeare, Joseph Hooker and Ashley Eden, among others. 182 pp., 19 colour and 17 b&w plates, 5 maps, notes on… Read more about this item Item Price
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Living with the Desert : Working Buildings of the Iranian Plateau
by Beazley, Elizabeth & Michael Harverson
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- 1982
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- 9780856681929
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Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1982. An examination of architectural adaptations made to cope with the harsh climate of the Iranian Plateau. A detailed study not only of grand religious and military structures but also those of ordinary people. 132 pp., 145 monochrome illustrations, 2 maps, glossary, bibliography, index. Soft Cover. New. 33 x 23 cm. Item Price
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Crucifying the Orient: The Colonization of Caucasus and Central Asia
by Sahni, Kalpana
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- 1997
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- 9789748299501
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Bangkok: White Orchid Press, 1997. Describes the Russian destruction of the cultures of the Caucasus and Central Asia and the denigration of the region's indigenous people, over a prolonged colonization, beginning in Czarist times. 344 pp., 14 colour and 17 b&w illustrations, 5 maps, bibliography, index. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/new. 21.5 x 15.2 cm. Item Price
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Charles Masson of Afghanistan: Explorer, Archaeologist, Numismatist and Intelligence Agent
by Whitteridge, Gordon
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- 2002
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- 9789745240209
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Bangkok: Orchid Press, 2002. Masson was one of the most courageous and resourceful early British explorers in Central Asia, wandering over the Punjab, Baluchistan and Afghanistan between 1827 and 1840, usually alone and on foot. During his lengthy sojourn in Kabul, he collected a vast number of coins which revealed previously unknown Graeco-Bactrian and Kushan monarchs, excavated a significant number… Read more about this item Item Price
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Southern Silk Road: In the Footsteps of Aurel Stein and Sven Hedin
by Baumer, Christoph
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- First English Edition
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- 2000
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- 9789748304397
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Bangkok: Orchid Press, 2000. Recounts early migrations into the Tarim Basin from both West and East, followed by a detailed description of archaeological remains of ancient settlements, now submerged in the shifting sands of the Taklamakan Desert, Xinjiang Province, China. Based on the author's own expeditions into the region in the 1990's. 166pp., 129 colour and b&w plates, 13 maps,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Karakorum Himalaya
by Allan, Nigel J. R.
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- 1998
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- 9789748299051
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Bangkok: Orchid Press, 1998. Invaluable research tool for scholars and laymen with interest in the remote and spectacular Karakorum Himalaya, a region nevertheless both fragile and at risk from the onslaught of civilization. 96 pp., over 950 entries, author and geographical location indices. Hard Cover. New/new. 21.5 x 15.2 cm. Item Price
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Mamluk Painting
by Haldane, Duncan
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- 1978
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Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1978. In this monograph, Haldane addresses a significant genre of Arabic art of the 13th and 14th centuries which has previously largely been neglected. Drawing on extant examples held in a number of major libraries in Egypt, France, Turkey and Spain, as well as in important private collections, the author explores the sources and development of… Read more about this item Item Price
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