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HarperCollins
March 2011
On Sale: March 1, 2011
205 pages
ISBN: 006176826X
EAN: 9780061768262
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Non-Fiction
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.
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