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Virtual Tibet: Searching for Shangri-La from the Himalayas to Hollywood

Virtual Tibet: Searching for Shangri-La from the Himalayas to Hollywood

Virtual Tibet: Searching for Shangri-La from the Himalayas to Hollywood

Virtual Tibet: Searching for Shangri-La from the Himalayas to Hollywood

by Schell, Orville

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New York: Henry Holt and Company; Metropolitan Books, 2000. x, 340 pages; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "What has made remote, mountainous Tibet and its only real celebrity, the Dalai Lama, so abidingly fascinating to the West? From Marco Polo's vision of Tibet as a land of enchanters to James Hilton's dream of Shangri-la in Lost Horizon, why have Westerners projected their yearnings onto that inaccessible place as onto no other corner on earth?In Virtual Tibet, Orville Schell, one of the preeminent experts on modern China and Tibet, undertakes a strange and wondrous odyssey into our Tibetan fantasies. He recounts the spellbinding tale of the Western adventurers, explorers, and spiritualists who for centuries were bent on reaching forbidden Tibet and the holy city of Lhasa. At the same time, Schell leads us on a riveting present-day journey from Hollywood dharma study groups and Beastie Boy 'Free Tibet' concerts to a re-creation of Lhasa in the high Argentine Andes, which was the extravagant set of Seven Years in Tibet, starring Brad Pitt. As the past and the present, ancient customs and the superstar culture collide, Schell sheds light on the danger of blurring virtual and real worlds. A fabulous spectacle, peopled by celebrity Buddhists and Tibetan bonzes, Yak wranglers and high-powered publicists, Steven Seagal and the Dalai Lama, Virtual Tibet is an elegantly written work of extraordinary charm, power, and insight. / Orville Schell, Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley, is the author of Mandate of Heaven, Discos and Democracy, The China Reader, and twelve other books. His articles have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and Newsweek, among others. He lives with his wife and children in the San Francisco Bay Area." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.

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Title
Virtual Tibet: Searching for Shangri-La from the Himalayas to Hollywood
Author
Schell, Orville
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Fine
Jacket Condition
Fine
Edition
1st
ISBN 10
0805043810
ISBN 13
9780805043815
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company; Metropolitan Books
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
2000
Size
8vo
Keywords
COLLECTIBLE
Bookseller catalogs
XXX / COLLECTIBLES; Travel; Genre & Subject / Religious / Buddhist; Asian / Central Asian;

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