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The Siege Of Shangri La

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Author : Michael McRae
language : en
Publisher: Broadway Books
Release Date : 2012-04-25

The Siege Of Shangri La written by Michael McRae and has been published by Broadway Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-25 with History categories.

The story of the quest for a real-life Shangri-La in the darkest heart of the Himalayas– a century-long obsession to reach the sacred hidden center of one of the world's last uncharted realms. At the far eastern end of the Himalayas in Tibet lies the Tsangpo River Gorge, known as “the great romance of geography” during the nineteenth century's golden age of exploration. Here the mighty Tsangpo funnels into an impenetrable canyon three miles deep, walled off from the outside world by twenty-five thousand foot peaks. Like the earthly paradise of Shangri-La immortalized in James Hilton's classic 1933 novel Lost Horizon, the Tsangpo River Gorge is a refuge revered for centuries by Tibetan Buddhists–and later in Western imagination–as a sanctuary in times of strife as well as a gateway to nirvana. The Siege of Shangri-La tells the story of this fabled land's exploration as both a geographical and spiritual destination–and chronicles the discovery at the end of the last millennium of the truth behind the myths and rumors about it. Veteran journalist Michael McRae traces the gorge's exploratory history from the clandestine missions of surveyor-spies called pundits and botanical expeditions of naturalists in the early twentieth century to the recent investigations of scholars, adventurers, and pilgrims seeking the "Hidden Falls," of the Tsangpo, which purportedly rivals Niagara in size and serves as the gateway to paradise. Each explorer's narrative provides increasing evidence of why the gorge has been mythologized in Eastern and Western lore as one of the world's most alluring blanks on the map–and a supreme test of human will. Taking readers on a guided tour of the gorge's landscape, physical and metaphysical, McRae presents an insightful look at the pursuit of glory and enlightenment that has played out in this mysterious land with sometimes disastrous consequences. The Siege of Shangri-La is a fascinating journey through the inner recesses of a remote, mystical world and the minds of those who have attempted to reach it. From the Hardcover edition.

Shangri La

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Author : Michael Buckley
language : en
Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides
Release Date : 2008

Shangri La written by Michael Buckley and has been published by Bradt Travel Guides this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Travel categories.

Appealing to the adventure traveler or armchair reader who simply wishes to browse and dream, this guide promises to lead them into the glorious reality and breathtaking landscapes of the Himalayas.

Return To Shangri La

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Author : Leslie Halliwell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987-01-01

Return To Shangri La written by Leslie Halliwell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-01-01 with Shangri-La (Imaginary place) categories.

In Search Of Shangri La

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Author : Michael McRae
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003

In Search Of Shangri La written by Michael McRae and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Travel categories.

Since the 19th century, Westerners have laid siege to the Tsangpo Gorge in Tibet. The colonial British saw it as a strategic prize, 1920's botanist Frank Kingdon-Ward saw it as a geographical puzzle to solve and Oxford educated American Tibet scholar Ian Baker (discoverer of the hidden waterfall in the 1990s) saw it as a hidden Buddhist realm. More recently kayakers have seen the rapids as the last great whitewater challenge. They paid with their lives. For all, the reality was unimportant. All heaped their own perceptions on the mythology that had come before. This title combines adventure, travel, history and myth to tell the story of the search for the hidden falls of Shangri-la.

Shangri La

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Author : James Jirat Patradoon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-04-27

Shangri La written by James Jirat Patradoon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-27 with categories.

Secrets Of Shangri La

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language : en
Publisher:
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Shangri La Frontier 6

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Author : Katarina
language : en
Publisher: Kodansha America LLC
Release Date : 2022-05-03

Shangri La Frontier 6 written by Katarina and has been published by Kodansha America LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-03 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.

NO SECOND CHANCES Tension mounts as Minato, who's mind was mysteriously swapped into the body of a wanted man on the run for murder, tries to figure out his next move. Stranded, alone, he starts to formulate a plan to get to his younger sister, who's now in the care of the man whose body he swapped with, without suspicion. However, it's not only the police after the man whose body he now occupies—a shadowy organization called the Dodokai is closing in, too...

Escape From Shangri La

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Author : Michael Morpurgo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010

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Shangri La Ep

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Author : James Jirat Patradoon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-06-25

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From The Scroll Of Shangri La

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1944

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