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From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet Trade paperback - 1987
by Seth, Vikram
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
The author of The Golden Gate describes his 1981 hitchhiking trip home to India from China via Tibet and Nepal in a book as unconventional, surprising and enthralling as The Golden Gate. 8 pages of black-and-white photographs.
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- Title From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet
- Author Seth, Vikram
- Binding Trade Paperback
- Edition 1987 1st ed. thu
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 192
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1987
- Bookseller's Inventory # 619538
- ISBN 9780394752181 / 039475218X
- Weight 0.35 lbs (0.16 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.5 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 1.27 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Cultural Region: Asian - Chinese
- Library of Congress subjects Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China) - Description, Tibet (China) - Description and travel
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 87040067
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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From the jacket flap
After two years as a postgraduate student at Nanjing University in China, Vikram Seth hitch-hiked back to his home in New Delhi, via Tibet. From Heaven Lake is the story of his remarkable journey and his encounters with nomadic Muslims, Chinese officials, Buddhists and others.