Tibet, Tibet: A Personal History of a Lost Land

ISBN-13: 9780241950388 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 352 str.

Patrick French

Opis

In 1982 while still a schoolboy, Patrick French met the Dalai Lama. Ever since, he has been fascinated by Tibet's people, its history, and its recent plight. 'Tibet, Tibet' offers an exploration of one of the most beautiful, isolated, mysterious and misunderstood countries on earth.

Recenzje

Mixes a compelling subject, magnificent prose and deep understanding The Times

O autorze

Patrick French is a writer and historian, born in England in 1966. He is the author of Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer, which won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Royal Society of Literature W. H. Heinemann Prize, Liberty or Death: India's Journey to Independence and Division , which won the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, Tibet, Tibet: A Personal History of a Lost Land and, most recently, The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul, which was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Hawthornden Prize.