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To a Mountain in Tibet

To a Mountain in Tibet Travel

To a Mountain in Tibet

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The master of travel writing at his most elegiac and luminous best tackling an arduous Tibetan mountain and his mother's recent death. In his new book, Colin Thubron travels to Tibet, and takes the pilgrimage route to Kailas, the most sacred of the world's mountains, holy to one fifth of the earth's people, but rarely visited by westerners. Buddhists and Hindus have ritually circled the mountain for centuries, but its steepest slopes are sacrosanct and no one has ever climbed to the summit. Thubron made the expedition shortly after his mother's death, and his hike through a challenging terrain of rocks, lakes and remote monasteries is perhaps one of his most personal and poetic books to date.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
240
Release Date:
2011-02-03
Publication Date:
2011-02-28
Publisher:
Random House Export Editions
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0701183802
ISBN13:
9780701183806
Weight:
261 g
Height:
136 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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