Exploring Top Books of Shelfari

Here Be Yaks: Travels in Far West Tibet

by Manosi Lahiri

Here Be Yaks chronicles the adventures of a group of ordinary people on an extraordinary journey to one of the most isolated corners of Tibet. From Lhasa they travel ever upwards along the ancient Tasam Highway, stopping at ancient stage posts and battling altitude sickness and exhaustion, to reach Mount Kailash, revered by four faiths. Here they perform the sacred hidden inner kora , or... (more)

Extremes along the Silk Road: Adventures off the World's Oldest Superhighway

Extremes along the Silk Road: Adventures off the World's Oldest Superhighway

by Nick Middleton

Nick Middleton—geographer, travel writer, and Oxford don—pits himself against the punishing extremes of the fabled route that links East and West. The Silk Road cuts through one of the most extraordinary landscapes on the planet. A vast region separating China from the Mediterranean, it is one of the most inhospitable places on earth—a forbidding terrain of hostile deserts, treacherous mountain ranges, howling... (more)

Learning to Breathe: One Woman's Journey of Spirit and Survival

Learning to Breathe: One Woman's Journey of Spirit and Survival

by Alison Wright

A searing and uplifting account of one woman’s spiritual journey from surviving a terrible accident to a triumphant ascent of Kilimanjaro On the second day of this century, world- renowned photojournalist Alison Wright was traveling on a windy mountain road in Laos when the bus she was riding in collided with a logging truck and was severed in half. As Alison waited for help to arrive—in excruciating pain and... (more)