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AS-NEW / UNREAD copy - 128 pages - NO writing, marks or tears inside book - Bright pages - Gretel Ehrlich's path leads her to Sichuan and Yunnan Provinces in western China to climb Emei Shan, one of China's four sacred Buddhist mountains. For Ehrlich, a practicing Buddhist, the climb is both a spiritual pilgrimage and a troubling encounter with a culture reeling from recent political history. Ehrlich visits Buddhist lamas who, until recently, were in hiding from the purges of the Cultural Revolution, and she travels to a panda refuge in the mountains northwest of Chengdu - in both cases trying to unravel the ultimate fate of these once-revered symbols. "All roads to paradise first pass through purgatory." In perhaps the most hair-raising car-trip narrative in recent travel literature, Ehrlich writes of her journey from the southwestern city of Kunming over the Burma Road and on to Lijiang - an isolated mountain town which does in the end fulfill Ehrlich's hopes for cultural and spiritual revival, and where she learns from an unlikely group of Naxi sacred musicians that "music is medicine" and that profound healing requires profound faith.

1st Printing. 9 x 6 x 0.75 Crisp Tight Clean copy ! 196 pages. 8742

1st Printing. 8vo over 7.75 - 9.75'' tall Crisp Tight Clean copy ! 224 pages. 9524

C O N D I T I O N : Very Good - in Very Good DJ. Slight ruffling at top edges of DJ otherwise a very well presented copy. N O T E S: Hardback. DJ. 1st Ed. C O N T E N T S : Set in the desolate landscape of Wyoming. This is the story of the Japanese Americans forced into giant camps as enemy aliens in the wake of Pearl Harbour. 412pp. Size: 8vo Medium (8" x 5½" approx.) Jacket Designed by Claudia Zeff. ||| || | Weighs 0.775 Kg. please contact me using the Ask Bookseller link before ordering as standard rates will NOT apply.

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Höganäs 1991. Bokförlaget Bra Böcker. 336 s., rikt färgillustrerade. 4:o. Förlagets blå klotband med gulddekor och skyddsomslag med fotodekor (svart rygg med vit text).