Fire Under the Snow: True Story of a Tibetan Prisoner
by Gyatso, Palden
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good Condition
- ISBN 10
- 1860465099
- ISBN 13
- 9781860465093
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King River, Western Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Harvill Press, London, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. First impression. Size: Duodecimo12mo. 234 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Mild tanning throughout. Edges browned slightly. The cover has bumps and marks indicating prior use but is in very good condition overall. This book is currently IN STOCK and would be shipped directly from our Australian address.. In 1992 the Venerable Palden Gyatso was released after thirty-three years of imprisonment by Chinese forces in Tibet. He fled across the Himalayas to India, smuggling with him the instruments of his torture. This powerful text is the story of his life and irrefutable testimony to the appalling suffering of the Tibetan nation at the hands of the Chinese. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 1860465099. ISBN/EAN: 9781860465093. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3787. . 9781860465093
Synopsis
The Venerable Palden Gyatso now lives in Dharamsala in India. Since his escape from Chinese-occupied Tibet in 1992, he has travelled widely in Europe and the USA with Amnesty and other support organisations. In 1995 he testified at the UN Commission on Human Rights in Geneva.
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- Bookseller
- Great Southern Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3787
- Title
- Fire Under the Snow: True Story of a Tibetan Prisoner
- Author
- Gyatso, Palden
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1860465099
- ISBN 13
- 9781860465093
- Publisher
- Harvill Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- BZDB137 palden gyatso, prisoner, tibet, political, monk, memoir, autobiography, Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 1860465099 EAN: 9781860465093 Gyatso, Palden Fire Under the Snow: True Story of a Tibetan Prisoner
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