Her previous book, "Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh" (Sierra Club, 1991), was based on Norberg-Hodge's first-hand experience of Ladakh's traditional culture and the impacts of conventional development on it. The book was very well received, and has remained in print ever since. (A second edition, with a different subtitle, "Lessons from Ladakh for a Globalizing World", was published in 2009; a third edition, with no subtitle, is to be published in April 2016). "Ancient Futures" has been described as an "inspirational classic" by The London "Times" and "one of the most important books of our time" by author Susan Griffin. Together with the film version of the book, "Ancient Futures" has been translated into more than 40 languages.