In exile from the land of snows : the definitive account of the Dalai Lama and Tibet since the Chinese conquest /
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Author / Creator: | Avedon, John F., author. |
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Edition: | Second Vintage Books edition. |
Imprint: | New York : Vintage Books, 2015. ©2015 |
Description: | xv, 456 pages, 30 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10381820 |
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245 | 1 | 0 | |a In exile from the land of snows : |b the definitive account of the Dalai Lama and Tibet since the Chinese conquest / |c John F. Avedon. |
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500 | |a Originally published in hardcover in slightly different form by Alfred A. Knopf in 1984 and in paperback in revised form by Harper Perennial in 1997. | ||
504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-441) and index. | ||
505 | 0 | |a Before the fall, 1933-1950 -- Occupation, 1950-1959 -- In exile from the land of snows, 1959-1960 -- Reconstruction, 1960-1974 -- The fight for Tibet, 1959-1984 -- Tibetan medicine : the science of healing -- On pilgrimage with the Dalai Lama -- The wheel of protection -- Tibet enslaved, 1959-1965 -- The long night, 1966-1977 -- Return, 1977-1984 -- Afterword -- An interview with the Dalai Lama. | |
520 | |a Now considered a classic, this is an eloquent and compellingly told account of the Dalai Lama's exile from Tibet after its conquest by China. | ||
600 | 1 | 4 | |a Dalai Lama, 14th, of Tibet, 1935- |
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