LAND OF THE SHADOW LION: An Adventure in Tibet

Brook, Elaine

ISBN 10: 0224023799 / ISBN 13: 9780224023795

Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1987

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Fine/Fine Dust Jacket is in as new condition, apart from normal shop shelf wear - contains no tears or chips or other damage. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Tibet; ISBN: 0224023799. ISBN/EAN: 9780224023795. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3353.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: LAND OF THE SHADOW LION: An Adventure in Tibet
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0224023799
• ISBN 13: 9780224023795
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Tibet

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Synopsis

Land of the Snow Lion "For Thirty years after the Chinese occupation in 1951, Tibet was virtually closed to all foreign visitors. In that time an abortive uprising, the escape of the Dalai Lama, a border was with India and the Cultural Revolution have done nothing to quell the people's religious instincts or to improve their economic lot. Uniform concrete apartment blocks have replace thousands of Buddhist monasteries, which once housed a fifth of the male population, but to Elain Brook, travelling alone in the country in 1982, Tibetans expressed more anger about the hunger, while food was being whisked away to China, than about the violence and suppression that had overtaken their lives.....