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Thubron Colin - To A Mountain In Tibet - Paperback
Thubron Colin - To A Mountain In Tibet - Paperback
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Description: " A superb account of a pilgrimage . Characteristically beautiful though uncharacteristically haunted." Pico Iyer New York Review of Books" Thubron walks for the dead and writes for the living and I can't remember when I have been so thoroughly and deeply moved by an author's outward journey inward." Bob Shacochis Boston Globe New York Times bestselling author Colin Thubron returns with a moving intimate and exquisitely crafted travel memoir recounting his pilgrimage to the Hindu and Buddhist holy mountain of Kailas whose peak represents the most sacred place on Earth to roughly a quarter the global population. With echoes of Peter Matthiessen's The Snow Leopard Peter Hessler's Country Driving and Paul Theoroux's Ghost Train to the Eastern Star Thubron's follow up to his bestselling Shadow of the Silk Road will illuminate interest and inspire anyone interested in traveling the world or journeying into the soul.
Title: To A Mountain In Tibet
Author(s): Thubron Colin
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780061768279
Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 3/6/2012
Description: " A superb account of a pilgrimage . Characteristically beautiful though uncharacteristically haunted." Pico Iyer New York Review of Books" Thubron walks for the dead and writes for the living and I can't remember when I have been so thoroughly and deeply moved by an author's outward journey inward." Bob Shacochis Boston Globe New York Times bestselling author Colin Thubron returns with a moving intimate and exquisitely crafted travel memoir recounting his pilgrimage to the Hindu and Buddhist holy mountain of Kailas whose peak represents the most sacred place on Earth to roughly a quarter the global population. With echoes of Peter Matthiessen's The Snow Leopard Peter Hessler's Country Driving and Paul Theoroux's Ghost Train to the Eastern Star Thubron's follow up to his bestselling Shadow of the Silk Road will illuminate interest and inspire anyone interested in traveling the world or journeying into the soul.
Title: To A Mountain In Tibet
Author(s): Thubron Colin
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780061768279
Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 3/6/2012