THE ADVENTURES OF A MANCHURIAN the story of Lobsang Thondup
by Sylvain Mangeot:
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- Hardcover
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0002160021
- ISBN 13
- 9780002160025
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About This Item
Collins London 1974. Vg/Vg (protective transparent wrapper over price clipped dj lightly rubbed at edges, clean green cloth with bright gilt titles on spine, internally no fault) octavo 281pp. First edition. Biography of Lobsang Thondup. Describes how the civil war in China was lost and won, what Tibet was really like in the twilight of its independence, and why India guards her Himalayan borders so jealously. Maps to endpapers, b/w photographs.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- THE ADVENTURES OF A MANCHURIAN the story of Lobsang Thondup
- Author
- Sylvain Mangeot:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0002160021
- ISBN 13
- 9780002160025
- Publisher
- Collins London 1974
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 1974
- Keywords
- China Tibet 0002160021
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