First Russia, then Tibet
travels through a changing world
New ed.
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Word Count
63,250 words, Guess
Page Count
253 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-101848854242
- ISBN-139781848854246
- Library of Congress Control Number2012376007
- OCLC Control Number642805991
- Better World Books9781848854246
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL25300883M
Classifications
- DDC947.084
- LCCDK267 .B9 2011
- LCCDK267 .B97 2011
Description
"Over the course of several months during 1931 and 1932, Robert Byron journeyed to three countries teetering on the brink of change. In Russia, which was stricken by famine, Stalin's dictatorship was in its infancy and the Great Terror was yet to begin. Having taken the first commercial flight to India, which took a week, Byron was thrown into the tumultuous last years of the British Raj. Gandhi was imprisoned while rioting and clashes between Hindus and Muslims had become commonplace. Finally Byron entered Tibet, the forbidden country. Exploring the Land of Snows, he saw Tibet as it was when the then Dalai Lama was still ensconced in the Potala Palace, twenty years before China's invasion. Blending classic travel writing with passionate observations on the deeper political and social issues of the time, Byron writes with uncanny prescience of the eventual horrors of the Soviet Union and the downfall of the Raj."--Back cover.
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