In Search of Shangri-La by Michael Mcrae
Since the 19th century, Westerners have laid siege to the Tsangpo Gorge in Tibet. The colonial British saw it as a strategic prize, 1920s 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.
Michael McRae is a former contributing editor to Outside Magazine (which originated both Into Thin Air and The Perfect Storm). He has twice visited the Tsangpo gorge, home of the hidden falls of Shangri-La.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780718144302 |
| ISBN 10 | 0718144309 |
| Title | In Search of Shangri-La |
| Author | Michael Mcrae |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2003-03-27 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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