Tibet: A History

7 best books like Tibet: A History (Sam Van Schaik): Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story, Journey to the River Sea, Lost Horizon, The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism, The Heart of the World: A Journey to the Last Secret Place, The Cannibal, The Crock of Gold (Revised Edition)

Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story

Author

Jacob Tobia

A heart-wrenching, eye-opening, and giggle-inducing memoir about what it's like to grow up not sure if you're (a) a boy, (b) a girl, (c) something in between, or (d) all of the above.

From the moment a doctor in Raleigh, North Carolina, put "male" on Jacob Tobia's birth certificate, everything...

Journey to the River Sea

Author	Eva Ibbotson
ISBN	0142501840

Sent in 1910 to live with distant relatives who own a rubber plantation along the Amazon River, English orphan Maia is excited. She believes she is in for brightly colored macaws, enormous butterflies, and "curtains of sweetly scented orchids trailing from the trees." Her British classmates warn...

Lost Horizon

Author

James Hilton

James Hilton’s bestselling adventure novel about a military man who stumbles on the world’s greatest hope for peace deep in Tibet: Shangri-La.

Hugh Conway saw humanity at its worst while fighting in the trenches of the First World War. Now, more than a decade later, Conway is a British...

The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism

Author	Olivia Fox Cabane
ISBN	1591844568

What if charisma could be taught? For the first time, science and technology have taken charisma apart, figured it out and turned it into an applied science: In controlled laboratory experiments, researchers could raise or lower people's level of charisma as if they were turning a dial. What you'll...

The Heart of the World: A Journey to the Last Secret Place

Author	Ian Baker
ISBN	1594200270

The myth of Shangri-la originates in Tibetan Buddhist beliefs in beyul, or hidden lands, sacred sanctuaries that reveal themselves to devout pilgrims and in times of crisis. The more remote and inaccessible the beyul, the vaster its reputed qualities. Ancient Tibetan prophecies declare that the...

The Cannibal

Author	John Hawkes
ISBN	0811200639

"No synopsis conveys the quality of this now famous novel about an hallucinated Germany in collapse after World War II. John Hawkes, in his search for a means to transcend outworn modes of fictional realism, has discovered a highly original technique for objectifying the perennial degradation of...

The Crock of Gold (Revised Edition)

Author	James Stephens
ISBN	1406830275

Truly unique, it is a mixture of philosophy, Irish folklore and the battle of the sexes all with charm, humour and good grace. The Crock of Gold contains 6 books: Book 1 – The Coming of Pan, Book 2 – The Philosophers Journey, Book 3 – The Two Gods, Book 4 – The Philosophers Return, Book 5 – The Policemen,...