Secret Tibet . (Revised & Augmented New Edition)
by Maraini, Fosco
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1860466931
- ISBN 13
- 9781860466939
- Seller
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Carmarthen, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Synopsis
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
- Sue Lloyd-Davies Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 111265
- Title
- Secret Tibet . (Revised & Augmented New Edition)
- Author
- Maraini, Fosco
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- Revised and Augmented New Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1860466931
- ISBN 13
- 9781860466939
- Publisher
- The Harvill Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- 1860466931, Secret Tibet; Fosco Maraini;, China; Lhasa; Gangtok; Phari; Iwang; Gyantse;, Tibetan Buddhism;
- Bookseller catalogs
- India/Burma/Asia;
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