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To a mountain in Tibet / Colin Thubron.

Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection DS793.K185 T47 2012
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Thubron, Colin, 1939- author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Thubron, Colin, 1939---Travel--China--Kailas, Mount Region.
Thubron, Colin.
Kailas, Mount (China)--Description and travel.
Kailas, Mount (China).
Tibet Autonomous Region (China)--Description and travel.
Tibet Autonomous Region (China).
Mountains--Religious aspects.
Mountains.
Thubron, Colin, 1939-.
Travel.
China--Mount Kailas.
China--Tibet Autonomous Region.
Genre:
travelog (performed works genre)
Travel writing
Travel writing.
Physical Description:
227, 12 pages : maps ; 21 cm
Edition:
First Harper Perennial edition.
Place of Publication:
New York : Harper Perennial, 2012.
Summary:
The "New York Times"-bestselling author's dazzling masterpiece, a deeply moving, elegantly written, intimate, and heartrendingly eloquent travel memoir.
Offers an intimate travelogue of the author's trek to Kailas, the holiest mountain in Tibet, in the wake of the death of his mother and the loss of his family.
Notes:
Includes index.
Local Notes:
Athenaeum copy: Keyes Fund bookplate.
ISBN:
9780061768279
0061768278
OCLC:
730414482

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