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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-101400041007
ISBN-139781400041008
eBay Product ID (ePID)2335536
Product Key Features
Book TitleTibet, Tibet : a Personal History of a Lost Land
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2003
TopicEssays & Travelogues, Asia / China
IllustratorYes
GenreTravel, History
AuthorPatrick French
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight24.3 Oz
Item Length9.5 in
Item Width6.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2002-043432
Dewey Edition22
Reviews"Penetrates to the heart of a mysterious country. . . . Everything you could want to know about Tibet is here."- Conde Nast Traveler "Far and away the best book on Tibet I have read. . . . unsparing yet always compassionate. . . . A brilliant unraveling of the myth of Tibet." - Mick Brown,The Daily Telegraph(U.K.) "Unflinching. . .French has a decided gift for inspired and heartfelt research. Strikingly scrupulous and disciplined, he wins readers' trust. . .earns our admiration. . . [and] brilliantly dissects much that is fuzzy or wrong in the indiscriminate embrace of Tibet." Pico Iyer,Los Angeles Times Book Review "I am deeply grateful to Patrick French for going [to Tibet] and emerging with an insightful and compassionate report that tells me what I need to know about the beleagured magic kingdom."David Herndon,Newsday, "Penetrates to the heart of a mysterious country. . . . Everything you could want to know about Tibet is here." - Conde Nast Traveler "Far and away the best book on Tibet I have read. . . . unsparing yet always compassionate. . . . A brilliant unraveling of the myth of Tibet." - Mick Brown, The Daily Telegraph (U.K.) "Unflinching. . .French has a decided gift for inspired and heartfelt research. Strikingly scrupulous and disciplined, he wins readers' trust. . .earns our admiration. . . [and] brilliantly dissects much that is fuzzy or wrong in the indiscriminate embrace of Tibet." Pico Iyer, Los Angeles Times Book Review "I am deeply grateful to Patrick French for going [to Tibet] and emerging with an insightful and compassionate report that tells me what I need to know about the beleagured magic kingdom."David Herndon, Newsday From the Trade Paperback edition., "Penetrates to the heart of a mysterious country. . . . Everything you could want to know about Tibet is here." Conde Nast Traveler "Far and away the best book on Tibet I have read. . . . unsparing yet always compassionate. . . . A brilliant unraveling of the myth of Tibet." Mick Brown, The Daily Telegraph (U.K.) "Unflinching. . .French has a decided gift for inspired and heartfelt research. Strikingly scrupulous and disciplined, he wins readers' trust. . .earns our admiration. . . [and] brilliantly dissects much that is fuzzy or wrong in the indiscriminate embrace of Tibet." Pico Iyer, Los Angeles Times Book Review "I am deeply grateful to Patrick French for going [to Tibet] and emerging with an insightful and compassionate report that tells me what I need to know about the beleagured magic kingdom."David Herndon, Newsday, "Penetrates to the heart of a mysterious country. . . . Everything you could want to know about Tibet is here."- Conde Nast Traveler "Far and away the best book on Tibet I have read. . . . unsparing yet always compassionate. . . . A brilliant unraveling of the myth of Tibet." - Mick Brown,The Daily Telegraph(U.K.) "Unflinching. . .French has a decided gift for inspired and heartfelt research. Strikingly scrupulous and disciplined, he wins readers' trust. . .earns our admiration. . . [and] brilliantly dissects much that is fuzzy or wrong in the indiscriminate embrace of Tibet." Pico Iyer,Los Angeles Times Book Review "I am deeply grateful to Patrick French for going [to Tibet] and emerging with an insightful and compassionate report that tells me what I need to know about the beleagured magic kingdom."David Herndon,Newsday From the Trade Paperback edition.