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Tibet, Tibet: A Personal History of a Lost Land
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- Condition
- Release Year
- 2003
- ISBN
- 9781400041008
- Book Title
- Tibet, Tibet : a Personal History of a Lost Land
- Item Length
- 9.5 in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2003
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.3 in
- Genre
- Travel, History
- Topic
- Essays & Travelogues, Asia / China
- Item Width
- 6.6 in
- Item Weight
- 24.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
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When Patrick French was a teenager, the Dalai Lama visited his school in northern England. Fascinated by this exotic apparition, French began what was to become a lifelong quest to understand Tibet, the myth and the fact. He would immerse himself in the history, travel as the guest of ordinary Tibetansnuns, nomads, and exilesand organize Free Tibet activists from an office in London. Now he gives us a kaleidoscopic account of that journey. Part memoir, part travel book, part history, Tibet, Tibet ventures beyond our world-weary fantasies to discover the truth behind a culture's struggle for survival. In French's narrative, a land adored for peaceful spirituality reveals its surprising early history of fierce war-making. Here as well are the centuries-old legends of how Tibetan diplomats maneuvered deftly at the Chinese court, legends that inform to this day each people's view of the other. A perennial vassal state, Tibet nevertheless managed to preserve its distinctive culture for centuriesuntil the twentieth, when everything was destroyed with devastating speed by Mao's overwhelming forces. Today, as Chinese tourists take snapshots and buy kitsch at Tibetan monasteries, young nuns quietly continue the underground fight against Communist rule. In Dharamsala, over cappuccino, exiled monks pitch their cause to Western pilgrims decked out in gaudy robes. Tibetans recall the terrible days of the Great Leap Forward and eagerly ask French for news of the Dalai Lama. In the presence of this internationally revered spiritual and political leader, French retains a measure of his youthful amazement, but finally, inescapably, he comes to disturbing conclusions about His Holiness's role in his people's collective tragedy. With immense learning and a clear but compassionate eye, Patrick French gives us a sober new understanding of a culture's senseless catastrophe and allows us to see what realistically canand cannotbe done to alleviate it.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1400041007
ISBN-13
9781400041008
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2335536
Product Key Features
Book Title
Tibet, Tibet : a Personal History of a Lost Land
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Essays & Travelogues, Asia / China
Publication Year
2003
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Travel, History
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Width
6.6 in
Item Weight
24.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ds786.F74 2003
Publication Date
2003-10-14
Reviews
"Penetrates to the heart of a mysterious country. . . . Everything you could want to know about Tibet is here."- Conde Nast Traveler "Far and away the best book on Tibet I have read. . . . unsparing yet always compassionate. . . . A brilliant unraveling of the myth of Tibet." - Mick Brown,The Daily Telegraph(U.K.) "Unflinching. . .French has a decided gift for inspired and heartfelt research. Strikingly scrupulous and disciplined, he wins readers' trust. . .earns our admiration. . . [and] brilliantly dissects much that is fuzzy or wrong in the indiscriminate embrace of Tibet." Pico Iyer,Los Angeles Times Book Review "I am deeply grateful to Patrick French for going [to Tibet] and emerging with an insightful and compassionate report that tells me what I need to know about the beleagured magic kingdom."David Herndon,Newsday, "Penetrates to the heart of a mysterious country. . . . Everything you could want to know about Tibet is here." Conde Nast Traveler "Far and away the best book on Tibet I have read. . . . unsparing yet always compassionate. . . . A brilliant unraveling of the myth of Tibet." Mick Brown, The Daily Telegraph (U.K.) "Unflinching. . .French has a decided gift for inspired and heartfelt research. Strikingly scrupulous and disciplined, he wins readers' trust. . .earns our admiration. . . [and] brilliantly dissects much that is fuzzy or wrong in the indiscriminate embrace of Tibet." Pico Iyer, Los Angeles Times Book Review "I am deeply grateful to Patrick French for going [to Tibet] and emerging with an insightful and compassionate report that tells me what I need to know about the beleagured magic kingdom."David Herndon, Newsday, "Penetrates to the heart of a mysterious country. . . . Everything you could want to know about Tibet is here." - Conde Nast Traveler "Far and away the best book on Tibet I have read. . . . unsparing yet always compassionate. . . . A brilliant unraveling of the myth of Tibet." - Mick Brown, The Daily Telegraph (U.K.) "Unflinching. . .French has a decided gift for inspired and heartfelt research. Strikingly scrupulous and disciplined, he wins readers' trust. . .earns our admiration. . . [and] brilliantly dissects much that is fuzzy or wrong in the indiscriminate embrace of Tibet." Pico Iyer, Los Angeles Times Book Review "I am deeply grateful to Patrick French for going [to Tibet] and emerging with an insightful and compassionate report that tells me what I need to know about the beleagured magic kingdom."David Herndon, Newsday From the Trade Paperback edition., "Penetrates to the heart of a mysterious country. . . . Everything you could want to know about Tibet is here."- Conde Nast Traveler "Far and away the best book on Tibet I have read. . . . unsparing yet always compassionate. . . . A brilliant unraveling of the myth of Tibet." - Mick Brown,The Daily Telegraph(U.K.) "Unflinching. . .French has a decided gift for inspired and heartfelt research. Strikingly scrupulous and disciplined, he wins readers' trust. . .earns our admiration. . . [and] brilliantly dissects much that is fuzzy or wrong in the indiscriminate embrace of Tibet." Pico Iyer,Los Angeles Times Book Review "I am deeply grateful to Patrick French for going [to Tibet] and emerging with an insightful and compassionate report that tells me what I need to know about the beleagured magic kingdom."David Herndon,Newsday From the Trade Paperback edition.
Copyright Date
2003
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2002-043432
Dewey Decimal
951.505
Dewey Edition
22
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