Volume 37, Number 20 · December 20, 1990
Lost Horizons
By Jonathan Mirsky
The Myth of Shangri-La: Tibet, Travel Writing and the Western Creation of Sacred Landscape
by Peter Bishop
University of California Press, 308 pp., $29.95
Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of the Dalai Lama
HarperCollins/A Cornelia and Michael Bessie Book, 288 pp., $22.95
A History of Modern Tibet, 1913–1951: The Demise of the Lamaist State
by Melvyn C. Goldstein
University of California Press, 898 pp., $85.00
My Tibet
Dalai Lama, photographs and introduction by Galen Rowell
University of California Press, 162 pp., $35.00
This could have been said of the present Dalai Lama by his visitors, who usually are similarly affected. In September, press photographers in London, who normally trample anything in their path to get a picture, called out to the Dalai Lama to shake their hands and thanked him humbly when he did.
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