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Backpacks and Bra Straps (Sihpromatum #2)
- Location(s): Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tibet, Western China
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
Savannah Grace’s best selling, award winning saga of her family’s four-year-long backpacking adventure continues. “Backpacks and Bra Straps” picks up where “I Grew My Boobs in China” leaves off, offering insights into how family dynamics are affected by such...
- Location(s): Tibet
- Genre(s): Fiction
The land is vast, its people few. Ringed by snow-bright peaks, the Changtang Plateau sits at the heart of Tibet. Its inhabitants, like seven-year-old Gongzha and his family, live as centuries of their ancestors have done – hunting and...
The Friendship Highway: Two Journeys in Tibet
- Location(s): Tibet
- Genre(s): Nonfiction, Travelogue
- Era(s): Various
Tibet was not just on the horizon, it capped it. Four thousand metres above this city was a country of stone and ice, and, even though it was officially closed, there was still a way in. A compelling and...
- Location(s): China, South East Asia, Tibet
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
It’s New Year’s Day and the year isn’t kicking off well for Tansy: her mother’s dead, she’s a cocaine addict and her boyfriend has just left her. A trip around the world seems like the only option except that...
Across Many Mountains: three Daughters of Tibet
- Location(s): India, Switzerland, Tibet
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1950s onward
In 1950 the Chinese invaded Tibet. This book describes the journey from Tibet to India describes the journey and the story of three generations of Tibetan women: Kunsang, Sonam and Yangzom, Sonam’s daughter. They flee to the refugee camps...
The Hotel on the Roof of the World: Five Years in Tibet
- Location(s): Tibet
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
This is a must read for any traveller. You can anticipate whats round the next corner, but no that couldn’t happen, yip it just did. My only negative point about it is that I took it to read on...
- Location(s): Nepal, The Himalayas, Tibet
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
This is about the trip from Nepal into Tibet – Thurbon has his usual eye for the wonderful detail and insight. His tales of seekers, refugees and mystics richly populate Tibetan history and Buddhist belief.
- Location(s): London, Nepal, Tibet
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
‘Sometimes you just have to do something, don’t you? Sometimes an injustice comes along and you think ‘No, this cannot be’, and rather than just turn off the TV, you know it’s time to act’ So begins Isabel Losada’s...
- Location(s): Tibet
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern looking backn
In Mandarin Gate, Edgar Award winner Eliot Pattison brings Shan back in a thriller that navigates the explosive political and religious landscape of Tibet. In an earlier time, Shan Tao Yun was an Inspector stationed in Beijing. But he lost his position, his family...
- Location(s): Beijing (Peking), Tibet
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
One morning in autumn, just after breakfast, Jia Jia finds her husband dead in the bathtub of their Beijing apartment. Next to him is a piece of folded paper, a sketch of a strange creature from his dream. He...
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