- Travel, Nonfiction, Description and travel, History
When Patrick French was a teenager, the Dalai Lama visited his school in northern England. Fascinated by this exotic apparition, French began what was to become a lifelong quest to understand Tibet, the myth and the fact.
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- Author
- Patrick French
- First published
- October 14, 2003
- Pages
- 336
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, HarperPerennial, Knopf
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780307548061
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