Filter:
- Location(s): Nepal
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Overworked computer programmer Zelda Richardson is teetering on the edge of burnout. Inspired by a girlfriend’s trip around the world, she leaves her life in Seattle, Washington, buys a backpack and flies to Kathmandu as a volunteer English teacher...
- Location(s): Darjeeling, Nepal
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s
Ellie Jeffreys arrives in Darjeeling with her British husband, en route to Kathmandu. They have ten-month-old, golden-haired twins, and despite appearing to be a happy family, Ellie’s relationship with the overbearing, philandering Francis is disintegrating. At a cocktail party,...
- Location(s): Nepal, The Himalayas
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1970s
One September, the writer and explorer Peter Matthiessen set out with field biologist George Schaller to journey 250 miles through the Himalayas to the Crystal Mountain on the Tibetan plateau. They wanted to study the wild blue sheep, the...
- Location(s): Nepal, London, Mount Everest, Shropshire
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s and 2014
Twenty years ago, Hugo and Ash were on top of the world. As the acclaimed rock band Ashbirds they were poised for superstardom. Then Ash went missing, lost in a mountaineering accident, and the lives of Hugo and everyone...
- Location(s): Scottish Highlands, Nepal, Scotland
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 2000s/2010s
‘This uplifting memoir is testament that in life there are times when there is nothing for it but to scale that mountain’ – The Herald Best Summer Reads 2019 In 1997, at the age of 24, Sarah lost her...
- Location(s): Nepal
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): 2000s
Grennan gives up his job and sets off to travel the globe. He settles down to work in the Little Princes Home in Nepal. It is not what it seems and is a centre for child trafficking. And he...
- Location(s): China, Europe, Nepal
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Various
Why do so many feel compelled to risk their lives climbing mountains? During the climbing season, one person a day dies in the Alps, and more people die climbing in this season in Scotland than they do on the...
- Location(s): Nepal
- Genre(s): Thriller
I know your name’s not really Jane Hughes . . . Jane Hughes has a loving partner, a job in an animal sanctuary and a tiny cottage in rural Wales. She’s happier than she’s ever been but her life...
- Location(s): Nepal, The Himalayas, Tibet
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
This is about the trip from Nepal into Tibet – Thurbon has his usual eye for the wonderful detail and insight. His tales of seekers, refugees and mystics richly populate Tibetan history and Buddhist belief.
- Location(s): Nepal
- Era(s): Modern
Love and marriage brought American anthropologist Elizabeth Enslin to a world she never planned to make her own: a life among Brahman in-laws in a remote village in the plains of Nepal. As she faced the challenges of married...
Please wait...