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Published by NY January 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0072475412ISBN 13: 9780072475418
Seller: Isle of Books, Bozeman, MT, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good.
Published by Crown Publishing Group (NY) January 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0307463524ISBN 13: 9780307463524
Seller: A Cappella Books, Inc., Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. In a deeply researched and engagingly written narrative of science, adventure, love, and an unprecedented voyage of discovery, Ridley reveals the true story of Jeanne Baret, the first woman to circumnavigate the globe. Very light shelf wear on the jacket. Light foxing on the top edge of the print block. Small red dot remainder mark on the bottom edge of the print block.
Published by NY etc~. January 2011. Dutton, 2011
ISBN 10: 0525951199ISBN 13: 9780525951193
Seller: Chris Fessler, Bookseller, Howell, MI, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
tan & brown hardbound 8vo. 8º (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings or store stamps, no stickers or bookplates, no names, no inking , no underlining, no remainder markings etc ~. first edition. first printing so stated ( & # 1 in # line). xii+273p. double page b&w map. dramatis personae. notes. glossary. bibliography. resources. index. world history. autobiography. memoirs. history of tibet. history of china. chinese occupation of tibet. communism. tibeta buddhism. ~ PART SPIRITUAL BIOGRAPHY, PART NAIL~BITING UNDERCOVER REPORTING, IN THE SHADOW OF THE BUDDHA BRINGS TOGETHER MATTEO PISTONO'S QUEST TO UNCOVER LONG~HIDDEN SPIRITUAL TRUTHS AND REAL~TIME VIOLATIONS OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN TIBET. For nearly a decade, Matteo Pistono evaded Chinese security and smuggled out photos of prisons, secret documents, and firsthand interviews of torture victims and other atrocities committed by the Chinese government, giving them to the Dalai Lama, human rights organizations, the U.S. State Department, and anyone who would listen. Yet Pistono did not originally intend to fight for human rights in Tibet~he had gone there as a Buddhist pilgrim. Disillusioned by a career in American politics, Pistono went to live in the Himalayas. After encountering Buddhism in Nepal, his quest led him to Tibet and to a meditation master whose spiritual brother is Sogyal Rinpoche, author of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. Pistono not only became the master's student but also couriered messages to him in Tibet from the Dalai Lama in India. This began an extraordinary, and ultimately vital, adventure. In the Shadow of the Buddha is a book about Tibet through the eyes of a devotee~a stranger hiding in plain sight. It's about how a culture's rich spiritual past is slipping away against the force of a tyrannical future. It's about how Tibetans live today, and the tenacity of their faith in the future in spite of dire repression and abuse. It's also about Pistono's own journey of merging political activism with Buddhist mysticism, about a man who traveled thousands of miles and risked his own life to pursue freedom and peace. MATTEO PISTONO is a writer, photographer, political activist, and practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism. He lived and traveled throughout the Himalayas for a decade, bringing to the West firsthand accounts and photos of China's human rights abuses in Tibet. He is the founder of Nekorpa, a foundation working to protect sacred pilgrimage sites around the world.