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Nomads of Western Tibet

Hardcover • 1990 • English • 1. edition

Nomads of Western Tibet: the survival of a way of life

By Melvyn C. & BEALL, Cynthia M. GOLDSTEIN

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About the book

For sixteen months between June 1986 and June 1988, Melvyn Goldstein and Cynthia Beall lived in Tibet studying a community of roughly three hundred Tibetan nomads at altitudes above 16,000 feet in yak-hair tents, weathering temperatures which reached thirty to forty degrees below zero, drinking butter-salt tea, and eating 'tsampa'...popped and ground barley ...and mutton.This copiously illustrated book is a fascinating account of these remarkable people, of their traditional way of life and thei...Show more

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ISBN

9780906026236

Publisher

Serindia Publications

Published year

1990

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Nomads of Western Tibet

Format

Hardcover

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