To A Mountain In Tibet

Thubron, Colin

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In this book, Colin Thubron travels to Tibet, and takes the pilgrimage route to Kailas, the most sacred of the world’s mountains, holy to one fifth of the Earth’s people, but rarely visited by Westerners.

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Publish Date: 05/01/2012

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Mount Kailas is the most sacred of the world’s mountains – holy to one fifth of humanity. Isolated beyond the central Himalayas, its summit has never been scaled, but for centuries the mountain has been ritually circled by Hindu and Buddhist pilgrims.

Colin Thubron joins these pilgrims, after an arduous trek from Nepal, through the high passes of Tibet, to the magical lakes beneath the slopes of Kailas itself. He talks to secluded villagers and to monks in their decaying monasteries; he tells the stories of exiles and of eccentric explorers from the West.

Yet he is also walking on a pilgrimage of his own. Having recently witnessed the death of the last of his family, his trek around the great mountain awakes an inner landscape of love and grief, restoring precious fragments of his own past.

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Weight 170 g
Dimensions 198 × 129 × 15 mm
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Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

227

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

915.1504 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K