R  Pagoda Tree Press is an Independent Publishing House, producing a highly specialised range of books on the History of India, Tibet and the Himalayas; with a particular emphasis on the History of Photography in that region.

    Founded by Hugh Rayner in 2000; as an offshoot of his Antiquarian Indian Book business, we also republish a variety of rare and unusual historical works on the Himalayas: early Travel Guides, Route Planners, Maps & Pamphlets, important historical & reference works, long out-of-print travel writing from the Himalayan region, as well as newly written histories of Indian Hill Stations.

    By taking advantage of the latest digital printing techniques; we are able to produce short, yet very high quality, print runs of books, that it once would have been uneconomical to republish using traditional printing methods.

We are continually producing new titles every few months, and are steadily building  a substantial catalogue of important reference works

   Pagoda Tree Press also imports, distributes and retails a range of books on India & Asia by other publishers; sourced by us from India and elsewhere. Some of these are very limited quantities of otherwise out-of-print titles.

Main Subject Areas

The Himalayas

Tibet

Nepal, Sikkim & Bhutan

The History of Photography in India

Early Indian Guide Books, Histories & Gazetteers

Some are new works, and some are new editions of rare Travel Guides, Biographies and Histories,  long out of print.

Most Pagoda Tree Press titles are currently ONLY available from us,  by direct mail order.

We are also UK retail distributors for

CBC Publishing,  Harare, Zimbabwe.

&

for Amur Maple Press, Washington, USA.

Pagoda Tree Press

Titles currently in print:

The People of India

by Kaye & Watson

Photographic Journeys in the Himalayas

by Samuel Bourne

Journal of a Tour Through Spiti

By P. H. Egerton.

The Indian Housekeeper & Cook

by Flora Annie Steel & Grace Gardiner.

The Diary of an Indian Cavalry Officer

By Richard Morgan

Darjeeling Pioneers

By Fred Pinn

The Dorjeeling Guide 1845

Early Maps Of Darjeeling

Guide to the darjeeling Himalayan Railway 1896

Travelling to Darjeeling in 1830

by capt. J.  Herbert

Guide to Dalhousie & Chamba 1935

by J. Hutchison

Mussoorie Merchant

by Andrew Morgan

Camera Shikar in Kashmir

by Randolph Holmes

My Forty Years in India

by Fred Bremner

Guide to Masuri 1884

by John Northam.

To The Pindari Glacier

By  G.W. Anderson

The Quetta earthquake 1935

Touring in Sikkim & Tibet

By David MacDonald

Exploration in Sikkim

By Theodore Hoffmann

Residents of Simla 1898

Liddell’s simla directory 1901

Naini Tal & The Kumaun

Lakes  - Anthology

Report on The Hindostan - Thibet Highway 1850 -55

Simla to Mussoorie over the Hills

by Major.  C. Davenport.

A Brief Account of Jodhpur 1896

Reminiscences of The residences Of The Commanders-in Chiefs in India

Routes in the Western Himalayas. Kashmir  &c.   -   1922

By Major Kenneth Mason

Journal of A Tour Through Spiti

by P. H. Egerton

Early Photographs of Ladakh

By Capt. R. M. Clarke, Capt. A. B. Melville & H. Rayner

John saché; A Photographer in British India

By Hugh rayner

The Sportsman’s Manual in Kullu

By Col. R. H. Tyacke.

SOME OF OUR MORE RECENT TITLES:

Views in Kulu & Spiti. Frith’s Photo-Pictures Series 1875

Edited  by Hugh Rayner

Early Photographs of Ladakh - 1861 -1864

By Capt. R. M. Clarke, Capt. A. B. Melville & H. Rayner

Routes in The Western Himalayas, Kashmir,  Pûnch, Ladakh.

By Major Kenneth Mason

Journal of A Tour Through Spiti 1863

by P. H. Egerton

Routes in Sikkim 1900

By Capt. F. O’Connor.

A History of darjeeling 1880

By M. H. Sannial

Thacker’s New Guide to Simla. 1925.

by F. Beresford Harrop.

The Sardhana Pictures at Government House, Allahabad

By Sir Evan Cotton.

John saché; A Photographer in British India  1864 - 1882

By Hugh rayner

Photographic Journeys in the Himalayas, 1864 -1866

By Samuel Bourne