To a Mountain in Tibet [Hardback]
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| Author(s) : Thubron, Colin |
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| ISBN : 0701183799 | | EAN : 9780701183790 | | Cover : Hardback | | Pages : 228 | | Size : 222 x 142mm | | Publisher : Chatto & Windus | | Published : 2011 |
Category : Tibet: Land and Culture
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Synopsis:
A journey to the sacred Mount Kailash in Tibet via the difficult Nepalese route by one of the last of the great travel writers. This haunting and beautiful travel book links Thubron's sympathetic intuition with the force and poetry of his descriptive writing. It is travel writing at its consummate best from an author of unsurpassable experience, sensitivity, and sheer lyrical power.
Mount Kailash is the most sacred of the world's mountains - holy to one fifth of humanity, and the source of the universe according to myth. The 22,000 foot peak is also sacred to four religions - the ultimate pilgrimage for Buddhists and Hindus, as well as for Jainism and Bon, the ancient pre-Buddhist religion of Tibet.
Its summit has never been scaled by mountaineers, but for centuries the mountain has been ritually circled by Hindu and Buddhist pilgrims. Colin Thubron joins these pilgrims, after an arduous trek from Nepal, through the high passes of Tibet, to the magical lake of Manasarovar beneath the slopes of Kailas itself. He talks to secluded villagers and to monks in their decaying monasteries; he tells the stories of exiles and of eccentric explorers from the West. Yet there is another dimension to this book. Thubron recently witnessed the death of his mother, the last of his family. His sister had previously died in an avalanche on a mountain in the Alps. And his father had served in the British Army near the Himalayas as a young man. Thubron's trek around Kailas, revered by multitudinous others, awakes an inner landscape of solitude, love, grief, restoring precious fragments of his own origins.
"A bold and brave journey, an elegiac book by a master of prose at the height of his powers." Justin Marozzi, London Evening Standard.
"A man who might justly claim to be the greatest travel writer in the world." Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday.
"This transcendentally gifted writer is, of course, one of the two or three best living travel writers - in some ways probably the best." Jan Morris. |
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