Begin forwarded message: Date: 17 July 2008 8:05:29 PM To: PAGODA TREE PRESS EMAIL LIST Subject: A New Pagoda Tree Press Publication: "Touring in Sikkim & Tibet' by David MacDonald Pagoda Tree Press are pleased to announce the publication of another addition to our series of reprints of early Himalayan Guide Books: Touring In Sikkim & Tibet By David MacDonald. First published in 1930; this is a practical handbook for travellers; written by the famous Kalimpong based hotelier, travel writer and explorer, David Macdonald. It covers travel routes through Sikkim and into Southern Tibet through the Chumbi Valley, up to Gyantse; and contains route descriptions, together with much practical information for the traveller of that time. A5 format in soft covers pp:68 with black and white illustrations. ISBN: 978-1904289-54-8. Price: £10.00 (plus £0.66 UK postage / £1.20 EEC postage / £1.85 worldwide airmail postage; per copy) It is only available directly from Pagoda Tree Press. To order your copy now by email, please cut & paste the order form below in to new email, and then fill it out, and send it, together with credit card details, to hughrayner@pagodatreepress.com Or alternatively, you can order by phone, fax or post, giving your credit/debit card details. We accept payment by Visa / Mastercard/ American Express / Maestro, and most other major credit/ debit cards. Tel /Fax: 0044 1225 463552. **************************************************************************************** ORDER FORM NAME: SHIPPING ADDRESS: POST/ ZIP CODE: TELEPHONE No: E - mail: Please send me copy [ies] of "TOURING IN SIKKIM & TIBET 1930" by David MacDonald at UK£10.00 per copy, plus UK £ per copy postage. PAYMENT DETAILS: I wish to pay by Credit/Debit card Card type: Card number: (N.B. if preferable; you can send the card number in two separate emails, for added security) Expiry date: Issue Number (Debit Cards Only): Card holder’s name: Cardholder’s Address (if different from above): **************************************************************************************** You can also order by post; sending a copy of this form, with a sterling cheque; made payable to Pagoda Tree Press (or alternatively, a sterling postal order made payable to Hugh A. Rayner) FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: Other titles scheduled for publication in the near future: The Sportsman’s Manual In Kulu, Spiti & Lahaul By Col. R. H. Tyacke First published in India in 1893, and reprinted in 1925. Packed with sensible advice and practical travel and camping tips, and written in a chatty informal style; it is a detailed study of the landscape, culture and wildlife of the Kulu, Spiti, Kashmir, Chamba, Bara Bhagal & Lahaul regions, as they were at the end of the 19th Century; but still has much of great interest and relevance for anyone travelling in these areas today. The author, Colonel R. H. Tyacke; was a keen sportsman and notable big game hunter, and a long term resident of the Kulu Valley. He writes about the region, as it was at that time, with an unrivalled knowledge and authority. A5 format in soft covers. 76 pages, with b/w illustrations and maps. ISBN: 978-1094289-38-8. Price: £12.00 Scheduled Publication Date: August 2008. Also: Camera Shikar in Kashmir by Randolph Bezant Holmes ('Holmes of the Frontier') Scheduled Publication Date: Autumn 2008. And: The Indian Cook and Housekeeper by Flora Annie Steele. Scheduled Publication Date: Autumn 2008. Important Note: You have been sent this email because you have already been a client of Pagoda Tree Press or Hugh Ashley Rayner Antiquarian Books; or have expressed an interest in receiving our book lists and publication notifications. If this is not the case, or you wish for any reason to be removed from our mailing list; then please email me, and you will be immediately removed from all future mailings. ******************************************************** Hugh Ashley Rayner Pagoda Tree Press Publisher, Printer & Retail Distributor of Books on India, The Himalayas & Tibet. UK Distributors for CBC Publishing, Harare, Zimbabwe. 4 Malvern Buildings Fairfield Park Bath BA1 6JX England Tel/Fax: 0044 1225 463552 http://www.pagodatreepress.com ooroo If you don't hear the knock of opportunity - build a door. Anon.

John Feltham wrote: > <snip> > Touring In Sikkim & Tibet By David MacDonald. > First published in 1930; this is a practical handbook for > travellers; written by the famous Kalimpong based hotelier, travel > writer and explorer, David Macdonald. It covers travel routes through > Sikkim and into Southern Tibet through the Chumbi Valley, up to > Gyantse; and contains route descriptions, together with much practical > information for the traveller of that time.<snip> Am I correct, or not, in thinking that the father of a great life long favourite of mine, Joanna Lumley, was stationed in Sikkim sometime during the 1920/30s ? I have a vague (very) recollection of seeing photographs of him trekking (or should that be 'on shikari'?) out there. I know he was army, so that would raise the question as to how he was stationed out there, Sikkim not, ostensibly, being under British rule; presumably as an 'adviser'. My knowledge of this area being somewhat scant, I may be confusing the political history of Sikkim with that of Bhutan. Yours Aye Andrew Sellon We see not the slightest prospect of success; - we see much danger in making the attempt; - and we doubt if the conversion of the Hindoo would ever be more than nominal. If it is a duty of general benevolence to convert the Heathen, it is less a duty to convert the Hindoos than any other people, because they are already highly civilized, and because you must infallibly subject them to infamy and present degradation. Rev. Sydney Smith 1771-1854, Canon of St. Paul's.

David MacDonald was, I believe, the first Trade Commissioner into Tibet and wrote a book(s) on the subject. I accompanied, when I was all of five years old, my father Felix Ronald MacDonald,to this man's beautiful home travelling from Calcutta to Kalimpong. My father was first generation born in India and it occurs to me after all these years, to wonder if there was a family connection . I had/have given up on chasing the MacDonald tree in India, because there seems to be so much discrepancy in spelling - nb the spelling variation in the name below. Just musing Sally Stewart Subject: A New Pagoda Tree Press Publication: "Touring in Sikkim & Tibet' by David MacDonald Pagoda Tree Press are pleased to announce the publication of another addition to our series of reprints of early Himalayan Guide Books: Touring In Sikkim & Tibet By David MacDonald. First published in 1930; this is a practical handbook for travellers; written by the famous Kalimpong based hotelier, travel writer and explorer, David Macdonald. It covers travel routes through Sikkim and into Southern Tibet through the Chumbi Valley, up to Gyantse; and contains route descriptions, together with much practical information for the traveller of that time. A5 format in soft covers pp:68 with black and white illustrations. ISBN: 978-1904289-54-8. Price: £10.00 (plus £0.66 UK postage / £1.20 EEC postage / £1.85 worldwide airmail postage; per copy) It is only available directly from Pagoda Tree Press. To order your copy now by email, please cut & paste the order form below in to new email, and then fill it out, and send it, together with credit card details, to hughrayner@pagodatreepress.com Or alternatively, you can order by phone, fax or post, giving your credit/debit card details. We accept payment by Visa / Mastercard/ American Express / Maestro, and most other major credit/ debit cards. Tel /Fax: 0044 1225 463552. **************************************************************************************** ORDER FORM NAME: SHIPPING ADDRESS: POST/ ZIP CODE: TELEPHONE No: E - mail: Please send me copy [ies] of "TOURING IN SIKKIM & TIBET 1930" by David MacDonald at UK£10.00 per copy, plus UK £ per copy postage. PAYMENT DETAILS: I wish to pay by Credit/Debit card Card type: Card number: (N.B. if preferable; you can send the card number in two separate emails, for added security) Expiry date: Issue Number (Debit Cards Only): Card holder’s name: Cardholder’s Address (if different from above): **************************************************************************************** You can also order by post; sending a copy of this form, with a sterling cheque; made payable to Pagoda Tree Press (or alternatively, a sterling postal order made payable to Hugh A. Rayner) FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: Other titles scheduled for publication in the near future: The Sportsman’s Manual In Kulu, Spiti & Lahaul By Col. R. H. Tyacke First published in India in 1893, and reprinted in 1925. Packed with sensible advice and practical travel and camping tips, and written in a chatty informal style; it is a detailed study of the landscape, culture and wildlife of the Kulu, Spiti, Kashmir, Chamba, Bara Bhagal & Lahaul regions, as they were at the end of the 19th Century; but still has much of great interest and relevance for anyone travelling in these areas today. The author, Colonel R. H. Tyacke; was a keen sportsman and notable big game hunter, and a long term resident of the Kulu Valley. He writes about the region, as it was at that time, with an unrivalled knowledge and authority. A5 format in soft covers. 76 pages, with b/w illustrations and maps. ISBN: 978-1094289-38-8. Price: £12.00 Scheduled Publication Date: August 2008. Also: Camera Shikar in Kashmir by Randolph Bezant Holmes ('Holmes of the Frontier') Scheduled Publication Date: Autumn 2008. And: The Indian Cook and Housekeeper by Flora Annie Steele. Scheduled Publication Date: Autumn 2008. Important Note: You have been sent this email because you have already been a client of Pagoda Tree Press or Hugh Ashley Rayner Antiquarian Books; or have expressed an interest in receiving our book lists and publication notifications. If this is not the case, or you wish for any reason to be removed from our mailing list; then please email me, and you will be immediately removed from all future mailings. ******************************************************** Hugh Ashley Rayner Pagoda Tree Press Publisher, Printer & Retail Distributor of Books on India, The Himalayas & Tibet. UK Distributors for CBC Publishing, Harare, Zimbabwe. 4 Malvern Buildings Fairfield Park Bath BA1 6JX England Tel/Fax: 0044 1225 463552 http://www.pagodatreepress.com ooroo If you don't hear the knock of opportunity - build a door. Anon. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message