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Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet by Xinran Publisher Comments It was 1994 when Xinran, a journalist and the author of The Good Women of China, received a telephone call asking her to travel four hours to meet an oddly dressed woman who had just crossed the border from Tibet into China. Xinran made the trip and met... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover 
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Murder in the High Himalaya: Loyalty, Tragedy, and Escape from Tibet by Jonathan Green Publisher Comments On September 30, 2006, gunfire echoed through thin air on Cho Oyu Mountain. Climbers preparing to summit watched in horror as Chinese guards fired at a group of Tibetans en route to India, executing Kelsang Namtso — a seventeen-year-old Tibetan nun... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer Publisher Comments In this vivid memoir that has sold millions of copies worldwide, Heinrich Harrer recounts his adventures as one of the first Europeans ever to enter Tibet. Harrer was traveling in India when the Second World War erupted. He was subsequently seized and... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A History of Modern Tibet, 1913-1951 by Melvyn Goldstein Publisher Comments The "Tibetan Question," the nature of Tibet's political status vis-à-vis China, has been the subject of often bitterly competing views while the facts of the issue have not been fully accessible to interested observers. While one faction has... (read more) List Price $56.95 Your price: $25.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama by Thomas Laird Publisher Comments The Story of Tibet is a work of monumental importance, a fascinating journey through the land and history of Tibet, with His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama as guide. Over the course of three years, journalist Thomas Laird spent more than sixty hours... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Tibet, Tibet: A Personal History of a Lost Land (Vintage Departures) by Patrick French Staff Pick Far from a Hollywood interpretation, French's research on Tibet is enlightening, analytical, and passionate. This historical travel memoir may be the best of its kind.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Tibet Turning the Wheel of Life Uk by Francoise Pommaret Synopsis An exploration of the cultural and historical roots of the Tibetan people, their customs and beliefs, and their relations with the wider world.... (read more) Your price: $5.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Spirit of Tibet by Alison Wright Publisher Comments This visually stunning, full-color portrait of Tibetan life in exile displays the spirit of Tibetan refugees living in the beautifil mountain settings of northern India and shows how they have preserved the best of their unique culture and identity.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Return to Tibet: Tibet After the Chinese Occupation by Heinrich Harrer Synopsis The bestselling author of "Seven Years in Tibet" presents this compelling mix of history, religion, and travel writing, which bears witness to the suffering and perseverance of the ancient civilization under Chinese rule.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Tragedy in Crimson: How the Dalai Lama Conquered the World But Lost the Battle with China by Tim Johnson Publisher Comments Tragedy in Crimson is award-winning journalist Tim Johnson’s extraordinary account of the cat-and-mouse game embroiling China and the Tibetan exile community over Tibet. Johnson reports from the front lines, trekking to nomad resettlements to... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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A History of Modern Tibet, 1913-1951: The Demise of the Lamaist State by Melvyn C. Goldstein Publisher Comments The "Tibetan Question," the nature of Tibet's political status vis-... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $44.33 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Struggle for Modern Tibet: The Autobiography of Tashi Tsering by Tashi Tsering Publisher Comments This moving autobiography of a Tibetan nationalist with a burning desire to reform and modernize the "old society" presents for the first time a personal portrait of Tibet that is realistic -- neither a feudal hell, as Beijing would have it, nor Shangri... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Across Many Mountains: A Tibetan Family's Epic Journey from Oppression to Freedom by Yangzom Brauen Publisher Comments A powerful, emotional memoir and an extraordinary portrait of three generations of Tibetan women whose lives are forever changed when Chairman Maos Red Army crushes Tibetan independence, sending a young mother and her six-year-old daughter on a... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $22.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Siege of Shangri-La: The Quest for Tibet's Sacred Hidden Paradise by Michael Mcrae Review "Michael McRae has a bar-room tale knack for describing the flavors and rhythms of remote destinations." –Tim Cahill "McRae is the secret adventurer within us all, the artful voyager down the far edges of the known world by the odd... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk by Palden Gyatso Synopsis Palden Gyatso was born in a Tibetan village in 1933 and became an ordained Buddhist monk eighteen years later. Through sheer determination, he won a place as a student at Drepung Monastery, one of Tibet's "Three Greats", where he came to spiritual and... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Murder in the High Himalaya: Loyalty, Tragedy, and Escape from Tibet by Jonathan Green Publisher Comments On September 30, 2006 gunfire echoed through the thin air near Advance Base Camp on Cho Oyu Mountain. Frequented by thousands of climbers each year, Cho Oyu lies nineteen miles east of Mt. Everest on the border between Tibet and Nepal. To the elite... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Tibetan History Series #1: Ancient Tibet: Research Materials from the Yeshe de Project by Yeshe De Project Synopsis This account of Tibet's ancient history describes the early tribes, ancient kings, and great Dharma Kings of the eighth and ninth centuries. Timelines, 54 maps, glossary, topical outline, index.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Pioneer in Tibet: The Life and Perils of Dr. Albert Shelton by Douglas A Wissing Publisher Comments Dr. Albert Shelton was a medical missionary and explorer who spent nearly twenty years in the Tibetan borderlands at the start of the last century. During the Great Game era, the Sheltons' sprawling station in Kham was the most remote and dangerous... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Tibet by Michael Willis Publisher Comments This is a richly illustrated introduction to the extraordinary culture of Tibet, presenting its art in all its glory.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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My Path Leads to Tibet: The Inspiring Story of Howone Young Blind Woman Brought Hope to the Blind Children of Tibet by Sabriye Tenberken Publisher Comments Defying everyone's advice, armed only with her rudimentary knowledge of Chinese and Tibetan, Tenberken set out to do something about the appalling condition of the Tibetan blind, who had been abandoned by society and left to die. Her story demonstrates... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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