Tibet, Tibet
A Personal History of a Lost Land
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| Author(s) : French, Patrick |
| Publishers Price : £8.99 |
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| ISBN : 0007177550 | | EAN : 9780007177554 | | Cover : Paperback | | Pages : 334 | | Size : 196 x 130mm | | Published : 2004 |
Category : Tibet: Land and Culture
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Synopsis:
In this critical book blending travel, memoir and history, French explores the fascinating land of Tibet in a quest to find the true, as opposed to the mythical Tibet of the Western imagination. This work has its origins in the author's twenty year involvement in the Tibetan cause. Rather than the peace-loving nation of popular Western perception, he finds a land with a long, warlike past and a complex interlocking relationship with China. Above all, he looks at how Tibet's recent history has affected the lives of individuals. He meets victims and perpetrators of Mao's Cultural Revolution, and young nuns who continue the underground fight against Communist rule.
On his journey through Tibet, Patrick French is continually sidetracked by a cascade of information, thoughts and reflections on such subjects as how to blind a cabinet minister using a yak's knucklebones, the correct method of travelling across a desert by night, and the reason for the Dalai Lama's transformation into "an unknown dark brown bird, bigger than a normal raven."
French illuminates one of the most persistently troubling of international issues, and attempts to debunk what he sees as the myths surrounding Tibet. |
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