Tibet by Bradley Mayhew
Last year, Tibet received 1.8 million tourists. By the end of this decade, China predicts it will be getting more than five million a year. This guide includes: new History chapter by historian Tsering Shakya, author of the "Definitive Modern History of Tibet"; now includes dual script (Tibetan and Chinese) and pinyin (Chinese, to aid pronunciation). It offers more information on the country's top treks.
John Vincent Bellezza is senior research fellow at the Tibet Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville. An archaeologist and cultural historian focused on the pre-Buddhist heritage of Tibet and the Western Himalaya, he has lived in high Asia for three decades. Bellezza has published widely on archaic ritual traditions in Bon and Old Tibetan literature. Since 1992, he has comprehensively charted the monuments and rock art of the ancient Zhang Zhung and Sumpa proto-states. The first non-Tibetan to have explored both the geographic and ritual sources of each of the four great rivers that emerge from the Mount Tise region, Bellezza has also visited nearly every main island and major headland in the great lakes region of the Changthang.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781741045697 |
| ISBN 10 | 174104569X |
| Title | Tibet |
| Author | Bradley Mayhew |
| Series | Lonely Planet Country Guides |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Lonely Planet Publications Ltd |
| Year published | 2008-02-22 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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