Yeshe Tsogyal
In English for the first time is the complete story of how Buddhism was planted in Tibet. The Lotus-Born is a translation of a biography that was concealed as terma treasure-as protection from the changes of time-and revealed centuries later ba a ... [... more]
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Tibet, 2nd: The Bradt Travel Guide
 New edition of excellent Tibet guide: The second (October 2006) edition of Tibet, the Bradt Travel Guide, is a welcome updating and expansion of the guidebook first published three years ago. Michael Buckley has been writing guidebooks to Tibet for over [... more]
CDN$29.95
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Circling the Sacred Mountain
Circling the Sacred Mountain A Spiritual Adventure Through the Himalayas Robert Thurman and Tad Wise is a remarkable account of spiritual adventure through the magical and forbidding landscape of remote western Tibet. A promise of spiritual ... [... more]
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Tom Christopher
During the first years of the twentieth century, the British plant collector and explorer Frank Kingdon Ward went on twenty-four impossibly daring expeditions throughout Tibet, China, and Southeast Asia, in search of rare and elusive species of ... [... more]
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Vikram Seth
Vikram Seth's previous books include three poetry collections, a libretto, the travel memoir After two years as a postgraduate student at Nanjing University in China, Vikram Seth hitch-hiked back to his home in New Delhi, via Tibet. . Born in ... [... more]
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The Descent
In Tibet, while guiding trekkers to a holy mountain, Ike Crockett discovers a bottomless cave. When his lover disappears, Ike pursues her into the depths of the earth...In a leper colony bordering the Kalahari Desert, a nun and linguist named Ali ... [... more]
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Dalai Lama
Born in 1935 into a farming family in northeastern Tibet, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama was recognized early in his life as a reincarnation of the thirteenth Dalai Lama. By age four, he was enthroned in Lhasa. During the 1950s, the political ... [... more]
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Patrick French
Patrick French was born in England in 1966 and studied literature at Edinburgh University. He is the author of Younghusband, Liberty or Death and Tibet, Tibet, and is a winner of the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, the Royal Society ... [... more]
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Vanished Kingdoms: A Woman Explorer in Tibet, china and ...
A rich archive of treasures: In the early 1920s, explorer Janet Wulsin and her husband Frederick journeyed the far reaches of China and Tibet to study the people and the lands of these remote regions - the photos from their expedition come to life in [... more]
CDN$36.47
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Tibet: The Roof of the World Between Past and Present
From Amazon.com: In a coffee-table book that will likely take up half the table, Maria Sironi Diemberger gathers some of the most fabulous photographs of Tibet into an encyclopedic collection. Unlike many books of this kind, the text accompanying the [... more]
CDN$42.00
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Lonely Planet Tibet
From Amazon.com: From Antarctica to Zimbabwe, if you're going there, chances are Lonely Planet has been there first. With a pithy and matter-of-fact writing style, these guides are guaranteed to calm the nerves of first-time world travelers, while still [... more]
CDN$32.06
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The British Invasion of Tibet: Colonel Younghusband, 1904
An odd but interesting collection of original documents: This is an odd but interesting book from the UK Government Stationery Office -- part of a series aimed at opening access to the Stationery Office's London archive. This volume is an abridged [... more]
CDN$14.01
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