Escape from the Land of Snows: The Young Dalai Lama's Harrowing Flight to Freedom and the Making of a Spiritual Hero

by Stephan Talty

Book Overview

On the evening of March 17, 1959, as the people of Tibet braced for a violent power grab by Chinese occupiers--one that would forever wipe out any vestige of national sovereignty--the twenty-four-year-old Dalai Lama, Tibet's political and spiritual leader, contemplated the impossible. The task before him was immense: to slip past a cordon of crack Chinese troops ringing his summer palace and, with an escort of 300, journey across the highest terrain...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307460959
• ISBN13: 9780307460950
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"