A HISTORY OF MODERN TIBET, Volume 2: The Calm before the Storm: 1950-1955
by Goldstein, Melvyn C
- Used
- near fine
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0520249410
- ISBN 13
- 9780520249417
- Seller
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About This Item
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 1st edition, 2007. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 8vo., 639 pp., with black and white illustrations. Bound in publishers blue cloth with blue illustrated dust jacket. Dust jacket shows minor edge wear, otherwise clean and unmarked. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve. Tibet, on the lofty Tibetan Plateau on the northern side of the Himalayas, is an autonomous region of China. It's nicknamed the "Roof of the World" for its towering peaks. It shares Mt. Everest with Nepal. Its capital, Lhasa, is site of hilltop Potala Palace, once the Dalai Lama's winter home, and Jokhang Temple, Tibet's spiritual heart, revered for its golden statue of the young Buddha. ― Googlev.
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- Bookseller
- Frey Fine Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29257
- Title
- A HISTORY OF MODERN TIBET, Volume 2: The Calm before the Storm: 1950-1955
- Author
- Goldstein, Melvyn C
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Unknown
- ISBN 10
- 0520249410
- ISBN 13
- 9780520249417
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley
- Date Published
- 2007
- Keywords
- Asia, China, Dalai Lama
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