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Virtual Tibet: Searching for Shangri-La from the Himalayas to Hollywood
by Orville Schell  
From Powells.com In 1953, a young Orville Schell happened upon a copy of Seven Years in Tibet, Heinrich Harrer's classic account of living in Tibet during the second world war. He was hooked: "Harrer's book offered a fabulous escapist tale of an isolated, ancient...
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Authenticating Tibet: Answers to China's 100 Questions (Philip E. Lilienthal Books)
by Anne Marie Blondeau Publisher Comments The land of Tibet--its people, culture, and religion--has long been both an object of contention and a source of fascination. Since 1959, Tibet has also been at the center of controversy when China's peaceful liberation of the land of snows led to the...
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Dreamworld Tibet: Western Illusions
by Martin Brauen Synopsis In this lively and visually engaging work on Western conceptions of Tibet, anthropologist Martin Brauen paints a vivid portrait of misinterpretation, trivialization, and political and commercial exploitation of a rich and ancient culture. Starting with...
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Virtual Tibet : Searching for Shangri-la From the Himalayas To Hollywood (00 Edition)
by Orville Schell Synopsis What has made remote, mountainous Tibet and its only real celebrity, the Dalai Lama, so abidingly fascinating to the West? In Virtual Tibet, Orville Schell, one of the preeminent experts on modern China and Tibet, undertakes a strange and wondrous...
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If Each Comes Halfway: Meeting Tamang Women in Nepal
by Kathryn S March Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-264) and index....
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Sherpas
by James F Fisher Publisher Comments James Fisher combines the strengths of technical anthropology, literary memoir, and striking photography in this telling study of rapid social change in Himalayan Nepal. The author first visited the Sherpas of Nepal when he accompanied Sir Edmund Hilary...
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The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama
by Thomas Laird Publisher Comments Over the course of three years, journalist Thomas Laird spent more than sixty hours with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in candid, one-on-one interviews that covered history, science, reincarnation, and Buddhism. Laird brings these meetings to life in rich,...
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Tibet: The Road Ahead
by Dawa T Norbu Publisher Comments In Tibet: The Road Ahead, a gifted Tibetan of humble origins tells the untold story of ordinary Tibetans in the 20th century, before and during the Chinese invasion. As he talks about the possible extinction of a culture, Professor Norbu refutes China's...
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Into Tibet: The CIA's First Atomic Spy and His Secret Expedition to Lhasa
by Thomas Laird Publisher Comments Into Tibet is the incredible story of a 1949-1950 American undercover expedition led by America's first atomic agent, Douglas S. Mackiernan -- a covert attempt to arm the Tibetans and to recognize Tibet's independence months before China invaded. Thomas...
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Tibet's hidden wilderness :wildlife and nomads of the Chang Tang Reserve
by George Schaller Book News Annotation In 1988, Schaller became the first Westerner permitted to explore the Chang Tang. Largely because of his work and the work of his colleagues, the Chinese government has set aside more than 125,000 square miles of this high-altitude terrain as a...
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Discoveries: Tibet: An Enduring Civilization (Discoveries)
by Francoise Pommaret Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 150-151) and index....
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Tibet: Land Between Heaven and Earth
by Peter Grieder Synopsis "Peter Grieder has traveled from his home in the mountains of Europe and found inspiration among the great Himalayas. What unites the people that he met in Ladakh, Zanskar, Bhutan and Tibet is a remarkable sense of fortitude and contentment derived...
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The Clear Mirror
by Sakyapa Gyaltsen Publisher Comments A rich blend of history, legend, poetry, adventure, and romance....
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Tibetan Voices: A Traditional Memoir
by Brian Harris Synopsis Through first-hand accounts, extraordinary photographs, and his own observations, chronicler Brian Harris paints a revealing portrait of a rich, centuries-old culture which is on the very brink of extinction. Accounts by Tibetan elders currently living...
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The Dragon in the Land of Snows: A History of Modern Tibet Since 1947
by Tsering Shakya Publisher Comments Since 1950, Tibet has been sandwiched between the heavyweights of Asian geopolitics: Britain, absolving itself of its colonial dominion; India, finding its legs as a newly independent nation; China, seeking to simultaneously consolidate its new communist...
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Dragon in Land of Snows (99 Edition)
by Tsering Shakya Synopsis Based entirely on unpublished primary sources, this extraordinary account chronicles the definitive history of modern Tibet and shatters the popular perception of the area as an isolated Shangri-La. "A deeply insightful and thorough account . . . likely...
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Tibet :abode of the Gods, pearl of the motherland
by Barbara Erickson Book News Annotation Based on interviews with farmers, herders, monks, nuns, Tibetan intellectuals, Chinese government officials, and both Tibetan and Han Chinese Urban residents conducted while travelling through central Tibet (especially Lhasa). Journalist Erickson...
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Mountains of the Middle Kingdom: Exploring the High Peaks of China and Tibet
by Galen Rowell
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Himalayan Desert
by Nina Rao
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Tibet
by Kevin Kling
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