TY - BOOK AU - French, Patrick. TI - Tibet, Tibet: a personal history of a lost land SN - 9780241950388 U1 - 951.5 FRE PY - 2003/// CY - London PB - Penguin Books KW - Tibet Autonomous Region KW - Travel KW - China N1 - Includes index N2 - Tibet has long fascinated the West, but what really lies beyond our romantic image of a Buddhist mountain kingdom of peace and spirituality? Travelling through the country, the author meets warrior monks, nomads and a nun secretly fighting Chinese communist rule, but also young Tibetans with a more pragmatic attitude to their situation ER -