Far Eastern

London. Michael Joseph. 1984.

First edition. Hardback. Dust jacket. Large 8vo.. xii/ 383 pages. Illustrated with a few colour and B&w photos. Map end pages. Rough cut page edges.

Intro: For over 2.000 years Tibet held itself aloof from the affairs of the world. Perched at 15.000 feet. in the shadow of the Himalayas. it was a feudal kingdom of peasants and Buddhist monks. nomads and aristrocrats. whose temporal and spiritual leader was the Dalai Lama. In Excile from the Land of the Snows gives us. for the first time. a complete and graphic account of how this tranquil. splendidly isolated nation was brutally wrenched into the twentieth century. and how her patient. gentle and courageous people resisted their fate.
In 1950. unprovoked. the Chinese Peoples Liberation Army crossed the Upper Yangtze river and...

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