Running on the Roof of the World
Title | Running on the Roof of the World PDF eBook |
Author | Jess Butterworth |
Publisher | Algonquin Books |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2018-05-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1616208198 |
A story of adventure, survival, courage, and hope, set in the vivid Himalayan landscape of Tibet and India that introduces young readers to a fascinating part of the world and the threat to its people's religious freedom.
The Museum on the Roof of the World
Title | The Museum on the Roof of the World PDF eBook |
Author | Clare Harris |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 2012-10-30 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0226317471 |
For millions of people around the world, Tibet is a domain of undisturbed tradition, the Dalai Lama a spiritual guide. By contrast, the Tibet Museum opened in Lhasa by the Chinese in 1999 was designed to reclassify Tibetan objects as cultural relics and the Dalai Lama as obsolete. Suggesting that both these views are suspect, Clare E. Harris argues in The Museum on the Roof of the World that for the past one hundred and fifty years, British and Chinese collectors and curators have tried to convert Tibet itself into a museum, an image some Tibetans have begun to contest. This book is a powerful account of the museums created by, for, or on behalf of Tibetans and the nationalist agendas that have played out in them. Harris begins with the British public’s first encounter with Tibetan culture in 1854. She then examines the role of imperial collectors and photographers in representations of the region and visits competing museums of Tibet in India and Lhasa. Drawing on fieldwork in Tibetan communities, she also documents the activities of contemporary Tibetan artists as they try to displace the utopian visions of their country prevalent in the West, as well as the negative assessments of their heritage common in China. Illustrated with many previously unpublished images, this book addresses the pressing question of who has the right to represent Tibet in museums and beyond.
The Roof of the World
Title | The Roof of the World PDF eBook |
Author | Mingtao Zhang |
Publisher | ABRAMS |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
First Across the Roof of the World
Title | First Across the Roof of the World PDF eBook |
Author | Graeme Dingle |
Publisher | Salem House Publishers |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 1988-01-01 |
Genre | Himalaya Mountains |
ISBN | 9780340362020 |
Spy on the Roof of the World
Title | Spy on the Roof of the World PDF eBook |
Author | Sydney Wignall |
Publisher | Lyons and Burford Publishers |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Espionage, British |
ISBN | 9781558215580 |
A riveting adventure memoir chronicling Wignall's 1955 participation in an expedition to climb Tibet's highest mountain, Gurla Mandhata, and his not so incidental spy activities as part of a covert Indian intelligence operation. The author and his companions were subsequently captured by the Chinese, imprisoned, tortured, and finally released only to face a trek across a Himalayan pass while suffering from malnourishment and dysentry. It's the kind of story that a fiction writer would be hard pressed to invent and is told with great aplomb and even humor. Lacks an index and bibliography. Includes photographs and maps. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Falling Off the Roof of the World
Title | Falling Off the Roof of the World PDF eBook |
Author | Lama Dudjom Dorjee |
Publisher | Infinity Publishing |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Buddhist priests |
ISBN | 074143430X |
This is the fascinating autobiography of the Venerable Lama Dudjom Dorjee. In it are entertaining tales of his Tibetan childhood, his escape from Tibet and his subsequent journey into lama-hood.
The Most Beautiful Roof in the World
Title | The Most Beautiful Roof in the World PDF eBook |
Author | Kathryn Lasky |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 52 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780152008970 |
From Newbery Honor author Kathryn Lasky comes a fascinating journey through the rainforest canopy that's perfect for budding environmentalists.