Hello Fellow Yahoo Friends! Could you please recommend some good books on Darjeeling, India? THANK YOU!?

Question

I plan on volunteering there for 6 +/- months from Feb-July 2008 and need to get moving on the research!!! THANK YOU! : )

Answer 1

Bradnock, R & R Bradnock (2004), Footprint India Handbook (13th ed.), Footprint Handbooks,

Brown, Percy (1917), Tours in Sikhim and the Darjeeling District (3rd (1934) ed.), Calcutta: W. Newman & Co.,

Kennedy, Dane (1996), Magic Mountains: Hill Stations and the British Raj, University of California Press,

Lee, Ada (1971), The Darjeeling disaster: Triumph through sorrow : the triumph of the six Lee children, Lee Memorial Mission,

1900, Newman's Guide to Darjeeling and Its Surroundings, Historical & Descriptive, with Some Account of the Manners and Customs of the Neighbouring Hill Tribes, and a Chapter on Thibet and the Thibetans, W. Newman and Co.

Saraswati, Baidyanath (Ed) (1998), Cultural Dimension of Ecology, DK Print World Pvt.Ltd, India, ISBN 812460102X
Ronaldshay, The Earl of (1923), Lands of the Thunderbolt. Sikhim, Chumbi & Bhutan, London: Constable & Co.,

Singh, S (2005), Lonely Planet India (11th ed.), Lonely Planet Publications,

Waddell, L.A. (2004), Among the Himalayas, Kessinger Publishing,

Roy, Barun (2003), Fallen Cicada (2003 ed.), Beacon Publication,

Answer 2

Please check the following link:

http://books.google.com/books?q=BOOKS+ON+DARJEELING&ots=FkI8jOvPRS&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title

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