The Friendship Highway by Charlie Carroll

The Friendship Highway by Charlie Carroll

After a twenty-year obsession, Charlie finally experienced Tibet in all its heartbreaking beauty. At the end of the road known as the Friendship Highway, he met Tibetan-born Lobsang who recounts the extraordinary story of how he fled the volatile region over the Himalayas, on foot, as a child in 1989, but was called back to Tibet by love.

‘I loved the picture he paints of Tibet, with its glorious natural beauty, its mountains and snow, its prayer flags and jade necklaces …This flowingly-written book certainly made me want to go there…’

* Trip Fiction Blog *

'This is a mighty read.'

* We Love This Book *

'this is a rare and extraordinary account of life in Tibet as told by a local and recorded by a travel writer.'

* National Geographic Traveller *

'Charlie Carroll turns out to be a superb storyteller and his re-telling of Lobsang’s tragic life-story is hauntingly evocative, whilst the device of telling his own story alongside leaves the reader both touched and hugely well informed about the culture, history and recent politics of Tibet.'

* The Good Book Guide, June 2014 issue *

'In a good piece of travel writing, the reader accompanies the author on a perception-altering journey and this book certainly achieves that.'

* Perceptive Travel Blog *

Charlie Carroll is the author of The Friendship Highway (2014), No Fixed Abode (2013) and On the Edge (2010). He has twice won the K Blundell Trust Award for "writers under 40 who aim to raise social awareness with their writing", wrote the voice-over for the TV series Transamazonica (2017), and is one of the Kindness of Strangers storytellers.  

 

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ISBN 13	9781849535908
ISBN 10	1849535906
Title	The Friendship Highway
Author	Charlie Carroll
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Octopus Publishing Group
Year published	2014-05-05
Number of pages	320
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.