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Murder in the high Himalaya : loyalty, tragedy, and escape from Tibet / Jonathan Green.
Van Pelt Library JC599.C62 T53455 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Green, Jonathan (Journalist)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human rights--China--Tibet Autonomous Region--Case studies.
- Human rights.
- China--Tibet Autonomous Region.
- Civil rights--China--Tibet Autonomous Region--Case studies.
- Civil rights.
- Freedom of religion--China--Tibet Autonomous Region--Case studies.
- Freedom of religion.
- Murder--China--Tibet Autonomous Region--Case studies.
- Murder.
- Refugees--Crimes against--China--Tibet Autonomous Region.
- Refugees.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 272 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Public Affairs, [2010]
- Summary:
- A journalist investigates a cold-blooded murder at a Mt. Everest base camp in Chinese-occupied Tibet, a probe during which he learns about the lawless world in the shadows of the world's tallest peaks.
- Contents:
- Songs to the Precious One
- Sacred vows
- Forged by mountains
- Escape
- Forbidden kingdom
- Lhasa
- Turquoise Goddess
- Snakeheads
- City on the mountain
- The insider pass
- Murder of ravens
- Bardo: the in-between state
- A dark secret
- Captured by the Wujing
- The responsibility of enlightenment
- A lie uncovered
- Kundun
- Determination
- The razor's edge
- The restless Himalaya
- The price of freedom.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781586487140
- 1586487140
- OCLC:
- 424560307
- Publisher Number:
- 99938891921
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