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To a mountain in tibet

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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  • "一場讓自己和與家人共同留下的記憶相處的轉山之旅"
  • "yi chang rang zi ji he yu jia ren gong tong liu xia de ji yi xiang chu de zhuan shan zhi lu"
  • "To a mountain in Tibet"@it
  • "To a mountain in Tibet"

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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."@en
  • ""Mount Kailas is the most sacred of the world's mountains - holy to one fifth of humanity. Beyond the central Himalayas, claimed to be the source of the universe, its summit has never been scaled, but for centuries it has been ritually circled by Hindu and Buddhist pilgrims. Colin Thubron joins these pilgrims, after a trek from Nepal. He talsk to villagers and to monks in their decaying monasteries; he tells the stories of exiles and of eccentric explorers from the West. Yet there is another dimension in this account: Colin Thubron recently witnessed the death of the last of his family. He is walking on a pilgrimage of his own. His trek awakes an inner landscape of solitude, love, grief, restoring precious fragments of his own origins."--Back cover."@en
  • "Offers an intimate travelogue of the author's trek to Kailas, the holiest mountain in Tibet, in the wake of the death of his mother and the loss of his family."
  • "Offers an intimate travelogue of the author's trek to Kailas, the holiest mountain in Tibet, in the wake of the death of his mother and the loss of his family."@en
  • "This is the account of a journey to the holiest mountain on earth, the solitary peak of Kailas in Tibet, sacred to one-fifth of humankind. To both Buddhists and Hindus it is the mystic heart of the world and an ancient site of pilgrimage. It has never been climbed. Even today, under Chinese domination, the people of four religions circle the mountain in devotion to different gods. Colin Thubron reached it by foot along the Karnali River, the highest source of the Ganges. His journey is an entry into the culture of today's Tibet, and a pilgrimage in the wake his mother's death and the loss of his family. He undertakes it in order to mark the event, to leave a sign of their passage. He also explores his own need for solitude, which has shaped his career as a writer'one who travels to places beyond his own history and culture, writing about them and about the journey. To a Mountain in Tibet is at once a powerful travelogue, a fascinated encounter with alien faith, and an intimate personal voyage. It is a haunting and beautiful book, a rare mix of discovery and loss. In its evocation of landscape and variety of exotic peoples, of mythic and spiritual traditions foreign to our own, it is a spectacular achievement from our greatest living travel writer, an artist of formidable literary gifts, uncanny intuition, and wondrous insight."@en
  • "In his new 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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  • "rejsebeskrivelser"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Reisbeschrijvingen (vorm)"
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  • "To a Mountain in Tibet"
  • "走進西藏聖山"
  • "Naar een berg in Tibet"
  • "Verso la montagna sacra : il Monte Kailash. Un pellegrinaggio in Tibet"
  • "Verso la montagna sacra : un pellegrinaggio in Tibet"@it
  • "Zou jin Xizang sheng shan"
  • "Destination Kailash : la montagne sacrée du Tibet"
  • "Zou jin xi zang sheng shan"
  • "Verso la montagna sacra : il monte Kailash : un pellegrinaggio in Tibet"@it
  • "To a mountain in tibet"@en
  • "Hacia una montaña en el Tíbet"@es
  • "Hacia una montaña en el Tíbet"
  • "To a mountain in Tibet"
  • "To a mountain in Tibet"@en
  • "Destination Kailash la montagne sacrée du Tibet"

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