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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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