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Secret Tibet

by Maraini, Fosco

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Hutchinson, 1952. 1st UK edition.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, VG/G+. 251pp, b/w frontis, 60pp b/w plates b/w map, index, dustjacket chipped with some loss along the edges, pages slightly tanned, a nice copy. An account of life in Tibet - probably the last to be written about the feudal society ruled by Buddhist monks, as the Chinese invaded shortly after the book was completed.

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Fosco Maraini was born in Florence in 1912. An anthropologist by training, after his first visit to Tibet he was trapped in Japan by the outbreak of war, and taught in the University of Kyoto until interned. In addition to his writing he has been a broadcaster, documentary film-maker, and professor at the University of Florence. From 1959 to 1964 he was Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford. From the Hardcover edition.

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Bookseller
Eastleach Books GB (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #
52845
Title
Secret Tibet
Author
Maraini, Fosco
Format/Binding
Hardback
Book Condition
Used
Edition
1st UK edition.
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
Hutchinson
Date Published
1952
Keywords
tibet, china, travel, himalayas

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