2008, ISBN: 9789579482226

IndoEuropeanPublishing.com. Paperback. New. Paperback. 164 pages. Dimensions: 9.0in. x 6.0in. x 0.5in.Lost Horizon is a 1933 novel by English writer James Hilton. It is best remembered … Meer...

IndoEuropeanPublishing.com. Paperback. New. Paperback. 164 pages. Dimensions: 9.0in. x 6.0in. x 0.5in.Lost Horizon is a 1933 novel by English writer James Hilton. It is best remembered as the origin of Shangri-La, a fictional utopian lamasery high in the mountains of Tibet. Hugh Conway, a veteran member of the British diplomatic service, finds inner peace, love, and a sense of purpose in Shangri-La, whose inhabitants enjoy unheard-of longevity. Among the books themes is an allusion to the possibility of another cataclysmic world war brewing, as indeed it was at the time. It is said to have been inspired at least in part by accounts of travels in Tibetan borderlands, published in the National Geographic by the explorer and botanist Joseph Rock. The remote communities he visited, such as Muli, show many similarities to the fictional Shangri-La. One such town, Zhongdian, has now officially renamed itself as Shangri La (Chinese: Xianggelila) because of its claim to be the inspiration for the novel. The book explicitly notes that having made war on the ground man would now fill the skies with death, and that all precious things were in danger of being lost, like the lost histories of Rome (Lost books of Livy). It was hoped that overlooked by the violent, Shangri-la would preserve them and reveal them later to a receptive world exhausted by war. That was the real purpose of the Lamasary; study, inner peace and long life were a side benefit to living there. Conway is a veteran of the trench warfare of WWI, with the emotional state frequently cited after that war--a sense of emotional exhaustion or accelerated emotional aging. This harmonizes with the existing residents of the lamasary and he is strongly attracted to life at Shangri-La. This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN., IndoEuropeanPublishing.com, Very nice advanced review, soft cover, First Edition, pages are clean, crisp and sharp, binding tight. Cover wraps fine, pristine inside and out.--A new Sherlock Holmes mystery worthy of the master Sir Conan Doyle himself. In 1891, a horrified public learned that Sherlock Holmes-in a last deadly struggle with the arch criminal Professor Moriarty-had perished at the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland. Two years later, popular demand made Sir Conan Doyle resurrect the great detective. Holmes informed a stunned Dr. Watson, "I traveled for two years in Tibet, therefore, and amused myself by visiting Llasa.", Bloomsbury Usa, 2001, Books on Demand. Paperback. New. Paperback. 130 pages. Dimensions: 8.3in. x 5.8in. x 0.3in.Tibet im Mrz 2008: Im Vorfeld der 29. Olympischen Spiele in Peking kommt es nach gewaltfreien Demonstrationen einiger hundert Mnche aus Lhasa zu den schwersten Unruhen in der jngeren tibetischen Geschichte. Ganz Tibet befindet sich im Ausnahmezustand, in Lhasa regiert die Angst. Ein junger Mnch stirbt vor den Augen seiner chinesischen Begleiterin, als die Polizei das Feuer auf die demonstrierende Menge vor dem Jokhang-Tempel erffnet. Wei Li, die dem Freund die letzte Ehre erweisen will, wird verhaftet und als Dissidentin verurteilt. Des wollt ich nicht, vor keines Menschen Hochmut In Angst, im Spruch der Gtter schuldig werden. Sophokles, Antigone This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN., Books on Demand, Taipei.: SMC Publishing.. [Reprint].. (circa2004).. Translated from the French version by H. I. Woolf. Black and white line illustrations by V. Goloubew, 268pp., paperback, very good copy. Originally published in 1924, this book contains three traditional Tibetan dramas, the Tchrimekundan, Nansal and Djroazanmo, with an introduction and index for each. ., SMC Publishing.<

2004, ISBN: 9579482225

[EAN: 9789579482226], [PU: SMC Publishing. (circa2004)., Taipei.], TIBET, Translated from the French version by H. I. Woolf. Black and white line illustrations by V. Goloubew, 268pp., pap… Meer...

[EAN: 9789579482226], [PU: SMC Publishing. (circa2004)., Taipei.], TIBET, Translated from the French version by H. I. Woolf. Black and white line illustrations by V. Goloubew, 268pp., paperback, very good copy. Originally published in 1924, this book contains three traditional Tibetan dramas, the Tchrimekundan, Nansal and Djroazanmo, with an introduction and index for each.<

2004, ISBN: 9789579482226

Taipei.: SMC Publishing.. [Reprint].. (circa2004).. Translated from the French version by H. I. Woolf. Black and white line illustrations by V. Goloubew, 268pp., paperback, very good copy… Meer...

Taipei.: SMC Publishing.. [Reprint].. (circa2004).. Translated from the French version by H. I. Woolf. Black and white line illustrations by V. Goloubew, 268pp., paperback, very good copy. Originally published in 1924, this book contains three traditional Tibetan dramas, the Tchrimekundan, Nansal and Djroazanmo, with an introduction and index for each. ., SMC Publishing.<

2004, ISBN: 9789579482226

Paperback, Gebraucht, guter Zustand, Ships from Reno, NV. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy custom… Meer...

Paperback, Gebraucht, guter Zustand, Ships from Reno, NV. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy!, [PU: SMC Publishing Inc]<