Tibet, Tibet: A Personal History of a Lost Land
10 best books like Tibet, Tibet: A Personal History of a Lost Land (Patrick French): From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet, Ant Egg Soup: The Adventures of a Food Tourist in Laos, The River's Tale: A Year on the Mekong, Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia, The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China's Future, The South China Sea: The Struggle for Power in Asia, Mirrors of the Unseen: Journeys in Iran, Under the Dragon: Travels in a Betrayed Land, The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order, Return to Tibet
Vikram Seth took nearly 2 months from China to India hitchhiking all the way across and finally giving go to temptation only in Kathmandu when he took a flight to Delhi. He passed through rural China, Tibet and Nepal ..enjoying most of the time and even the frequent inconveniences caused by natural disasters...
Ant Egg Soup: The Adventures of a Food Tourist in Laos
| Author | Natacha Du Pont de Bie |
| ISBN | 0340825685 |
Natacha Du Pont De Bie is no ordinary tourist. She'll trek for hours or even days in search of a good lunch. Ant Egg Soup is the result of her adventures in Laos, the stories of the people she met, the places she visited and, of course, the amazing food she tasted. Drinking raw turkey blood with herbs in a tribal...
The River's Tale: A Year on the Mekong
| Author | Edward Gargan |
| ISBN | 0375705597 |
Along the Mekong, from northern Tibet to Lijiang, from Luang Prabang to Phnom Penh to Can Lo, I moved from one world to another, among cultural islands often ignorant of each other’s presence. Yet each island, as if built on shifting sands and eroded and reshaped by a universal sea, was re-forming itself,...
In 1996, Tom Bissell went to Uzbekistan as a naive Peace Corps volunteer. Though he lasted only a few months before illness and personal crisis forced him home, Bissell found himself entranced by this remote land. Five years later he returned to explore the shrinking Aral Sea, destroyed by Soviet irrigation...
The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China's Future
| Author | Elizabeth C. Economy |
| ISBN | 0801489784 |
China's spectacular economic growth over the past two decades has dramatically depleted the country s natural resources and produced skyrocketing rates of pollution. Environmental degradation in China has also contributed to significant public health problems, mass migration, economic loss,...
The South China Sea: The Struggle for Power in Asia
| Author | Bill Hayton |
| ISBN | 0300186835 |
A discerning account of simmering conflict in the South China Sea and why the world can’t afford to be indifferent
China’s rise has upset the global balance of power, and the first place to feel the strain is Beijing’s back yard: the South China Sea. For decades tensions have smoldered...
Mirrors of the Unseen: Journeys in Iran
Highly memorable description of the lives of ordinary people in 21st century Iran. I have a memory like a sieve so it says a great deal about this book that I remember so much even though I read it 5 or so years ago. It left a huge impression on me. Every time I hear or read about Iran, I remember that ordinary...
Under the Dragon: Travels in a Betrayed Land
| Author | Rory MacLean |
| ISBN | 0002570130 |
This expression of the pain of Burma uses novelistic techniques to weave together the patient endurance of its stricken inhabitants, together with their fragility and immense charm. Through his studies of the lives of the individual Burmese whom he encounters, the author makes us feel the weight...
The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order
| Author | Parag Khanna |
| ISBN | 1400065089 |
Grand explanations of how to understand the complex twenty-first-century world have all fallen short–until now. In The Second World, the brilliant young scholar Parag Khanna takes readers on a thrilling global tour, one that shows how America’s dominant moment has been suddenly replaced by...
| Author | Heinrich Harrer |
| ISBN | 0874779251 |
Seven Years in Tibet told the incredible story of an idyllic life on the "roof of the world, " before it was destroyed by the invading Chinese army. Now Austrian adventurer Heinrich Harrer revisits the people and places he left behind, in the extraordinary Return to Tibet. Against a backdrop of ruined...
| Author | Peter Hopkirk |
| ISBN | 1568360509 |
For nineteenth-century adventures, Tibet was the prize destination, and Lhasa, its capital situated nearly three miles above sea level, was the grandest trophy of all. The lure of this mysterious land, and its strategic importance, made it inevitable that despite the Tibetans' reluctance to end...
The Noodle Maker of Kalimpong: The Untold Story of My Struggle for Tibet
| Author | Gyalo Thondup |
| ISBN | 1610392892 |
Shortly before midnight on March 17, 1959, the Dalai Lama, without his glasses and dressed as an ordinary Tibetan solider, slipped out of his summer residence with only four aides at his side. At that moment, he became the symbolic head of the Tibetan government in exile, and Gyalo Thondup, the only one...
The Snow Lion and the Dragon: China, Tibet, and the Dalai Lama
| Author | Melvyn C. Goldstein |
| ISBN | 0520219511 |
Tensions over the "Tibet Question"—the political status of Tibet—are escalating every day. The Dalai Lama has gained broad international sympathy in his appeals for autonomy from China, yet the Chinese government maintains a hard-line position against it. What is the history of the conflict?...
| Author | Tsering Shakya |
| ISBN | 0140196153 |
Based entirely on unpublished primary sources, Tsering Shakya's groundbreaking history of modern Tibet shatters the popular conception of the country as an isolated Shangri-la unaffected by broader international developments. Shakya gives a balanced, blow-by-blow account of Tibet's ongoing...
| 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...
| Author | Anastasia M. Ashman |
| ISBN | 1580051553 |
As the Western world struggles to comprehend the paradoxes of modern Turkey, a country both European and Asian, forward-looking yet rooted in ancient empire, Tales from the Expat Harem reveals its most personal nuances. This illuminating anthology provides a window into the country from the perspective...
| Author | Claire Scobie |
| ISBN | 1846040051 |
Some go to Tibet seeking inspiration, others for adventure. The award-winning journalist, Claire Scobie, found both when she left her ordinary life in London and went to the Himalayas in search of a rare red lily. Her journey took her to Pemako, where few Westerners have set foot and where the myth of...
| Author | Donald S. Lopez Jr. |
| ISBN | 0226493113 |
Prisoners of Shangri-La is a provocative analysis of the romance of Tibet, a romance that, even as it is invoked by Tibetan lamas living in exile, ultimately imprisons those who seek the goal of Tibetan independence from Chinese occupation.
"Lopez lifts the veil on America's romantic vision...
| Author | Ella Maillart |
| ISBN | 1406719269 |
Forbidden Journey is the awe-inspiring story of Ella Maillart and Peter Fleming's trip from Peking in China to Srinagar in India, crossing hostile deserts and high Himalayan passes this travel book is full of accounts of the people who inhabited this wild and vast land, living in a way that had not changed...
Shopping for Buddhas: An Adventure in Nepal
| Author | Jeff Greenwald |
| ISBN | 1609520947 |
Jeff Greenwald's classic travelogue takes the reader on a journey across the Himalayan peaks and through the rustic lanes of Kathmandu in search of the "perfect" Buddha statue. At turns hilarious and moving, his quest features a cast of amazing characters—from a passionate palmist to a flying lama...
A Dragon Apparent: Travels in Cambodia, Laos & Vietnam
It's easy to see why Graham Greene was lured to Vietnam by Lewis's account. The sense of a country -- indeed, an entire region -- on the verge of revolution, beleaguered colonial officials gamely assisting the author in procuring transport from one crumbling outpost to the next, the documentary feel...
| Author | Thomas Bell |
| ISBN | 8184005784 |
Kathmandu is the greatest city of the Himalayas; a unique survival of cultural practices that died out in India a thousand years ago. It is a carnival of sexual licence and hypocrisy, a jewel of world art, a hotbed of communist revolution, a paradigm of failed democracy, a case study in bungled Western...
China Safari: On the Trail of Beijing's Expansion in Africa
| Author | Serge Michel |
| ISBN | 1568584261 |
China has now taken Great Britain’s place as Africa’s third largest business partner. Where others only see chaos, the Chinese see opportunities. With no colonial past and no political preconditions, China is bringing investment and needed infrastructure to a continent that has been largely...
The Dawn of Eurasia: On the Trail of the New World Order
| Author | Bruno Maçães |
| ISBN | 0241309255 |
'Brilliant, bold and beautifully told ... A profound piece of political thinking' Ben Judah, author of
This Is London
In this original and timely book, Bruno Maçães argues that the best word for the emerging global order is 'Eurasian', and shows why we need to begin thinking on a super-continental...
China's Asian Dream: Empire Building along the New Silk Road
| Author | Tom Miller |
| ISBN | 1783609230 |
“China,” Napoleon once remarked, “is a sleeping lion. Let her sleep, for when she wakes she will shake the world.” In 2014, President Xi Jinping triumphantly declared that the lion had awoken. Under Xi, China is pursuing an increasingly ambitious foreign policy with the aim of restoring its...
