Books About Bangladesh
These and other books about Bangladesh may be
ordered from:
Songs at the River's Edge - Stories from a Bangladeshi
Village
Katy Gardner,
1997. Pluto Press. 164 pp. Hardcover. The
first edition was published by Virago and has been out of print since 1993.
USD39.95 from Barnes & Noble. To order this book online from
Barnes&Noble, visit http://bicn.com/fwd/fwd2bnbook001.htm
.
"Fascinating and full of detail, this
story of Katy Gardner's life in a Bangladeshi village accessible and easy to
read at many different levels. For anthropologists, it provides an essential
account of starting research in someone else's society. For pleasure, it reads
as a fine novel, and as a piece of travel writing, it is evocative and
absorbing. Katy Gardner writes about the friends she made, the characters she
met, the rituals she witnessed, about Islam as practiced in that village and
about women living in purdah. She writes about trying, as a Western woman, to
live the life of the village women. Her book is alive and memorable."
Living in the Fringe
By Gilles Saussier, assisted by Shah Alam Manik. ISBN
2-9512665-0-2. 137 pp. Cost Tk1950.
Available from Mr
Kashem's Rickshaw Books
Clearly the product of a passionate interest in the
people of Bangladesh, and of extraordinary gifts for photographic portraiture
and landscape photography as well. Gorgeous without being slick, the photographs
and text work together to communicate the strength and dignity of the people of
the fringe areas of Bangladesh, and the beauty of the harsh landscape in which
they struggle to survive. From the forward by F.H. Ahbed, founder executive
director BRAC.: "[Gille presents] photographed close-ups of people living
in the fringe areas of Bangladesh, on the riverbed chars, in the haor basin, on
the newly emerged lands of the Bay of Bengal. He does so with brief chronicles
that at once give the reader authentic insights into their trials and
tribulations, their dreams and hopes. ... By documenting their lives Gilles ...
give[s] these people a face, a dignity, and an identity that they, on their own,
so richly deserve."
Expatriate Games
by Mark Trenowden.
Minerva Press 270pp. 198x129mm. Paperback. GBP12.99. ISBN: 0754111016.
http://www.btintenet.com/~cricketboy/expat.htm
From the publisher: "A true story of the hardships, frustrations and fun experienced by a foreigner setting up home in Bangladesh, where making a simple telephone call is a ten-act drama and, blighted by a lethargic, bureaucratic environment, every day has its stresses. Whether you are a seasoned
expat, soon to be posted abroad or just an armchair explorer, there will be plenty to entertain, terrify, and amuse you here.
"
"...[D]escribes the visit to Bangladesh by the eponymous expatriates, an
English/Canadian couple sent out on a two-year posting to work in the
country. The work describes their efforts to go native, and the degree to
which they achieve it. This means adjustment to a whole new way of doing
business.
"The author's look at the country is both critical and sympathetic, any
exasperation accompanied by a willingness to see people as individuals and to
swallow any distaste one might feel towards practices of which one disapproves,
over and above the necessity to get along. This is a factor that makes one
sense that the author's look at his subject has been a fair one.
"The book is greatly enjoyable, readable and informative.
The story ... offers a sympathetic portrait not only of a different country and
its people but also the universals of human existence and interaction with which
anyone [can] identify."
Birds of the Indian Subcontinent
By Richard Grimmet, Carol Inskipp, and Tim Inskipp. Delhi
Oxford University Press. 1998. Tk3375. Hardback, pp888, many color plates. Available from Mr
Kashem's Rickshaw Books
For the serious subcontinental birder! R Grimmett was artist for Guide to the
Bird's of Nepal and coauthor of Birdlife's Important Bird Areas of Europe.
Founder chairman Oriental Bird Club founded 1984, currently works for BirdLife
International in Indonesia, has managed conservation programmes in Europe &
Asia. Carol Inskipp is coauthor of Guide to the Birds of Nepal (1985) and An
Introduction to Birdwatching in Bhutan (1995), and author of Birdwatcher's Guide
to Nepal (1988). Tim Inskipp is Editor of Forktail, the journal of the OBC, and
coauthor of Guide to the Birds of Nepal and Annotated Checklist of the Birds of
the Oriental Region, now at World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge.
Bideshi Baburchi II
By Kim Gregory. About Tk150.
Spiral bound with separators by topic. Available from Mr
Kashem's Rickshaw Books
Over 200 recipes in English and Bengali. A complete
revision of Bideshi Baburchi, the popular original English/Bengali cookbook.
Pabitra Baibel - The Bible in Bengali Common Language,
Old and New Testaments
Bangladesh Bible Society
(BBS) new 1998 translation, common non-Muslim dialect Bengali. About Tk150. Available from
Mr
Kashem's Rickshaw Books
An alternative to other, more difficult translations based on the original Carey
translation dating to the early 1800s.
Injil Sharif - The
New Testament in Common Language Muslim Dialect Bengali
BBS 1998. About Tk150.
Available from Mr
Kashem's Rickshaw Books
The Taurat Sharif (Pentateuch, ie
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy) and the Jabur Sharif (Psalms)
may also be available in Muslim dialect Bengali common language BBS
translations.
Manderangni Jagring - Images of the Garos in Bangladesh
Introduction
by Ellen Bal, photos by Yasuhiro Takami, commentary by Johannes Sandgren,
coordinated by Pakhara Cultural Association, publication grant from the Royal
Netherlands Embassy. UPL 1999, 99pp, many black & white photos. Tk500. Available from
Mr
Kashem's Rickshaw Books
Through text and pictures the book introduces the present-day Garos of
Bangladesh, a people indigenous to the hills of Meghalaya and the plains of
northern Bangladesh.
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