Cover
A Portrait of Lost Tibet - Tung, Rosemary Jones and Tolstoy, Ilya and Dolan, Brooke (photography)

A Portrait of Lost Tibet

Author
Tung, Rosemary Jones and Tolstoy, Ilya and Dolan, Brooke (photography)
Price
NZ$25.00
Stock
0
Variations
Description

Thames and Hudson, 1980

When the Chinese communists came to power in 1949, they moved to reestablish their traditional borders and in 1959 annexed Tibet. Most monasteries were closed, nomads were moved onto communes, the nobility were stripped of privileges, forests were cut, roads were paved, military airfields were constructed, and Tibet's communication with the outside world was cut off. A Portrait of Lost Tibet provides rare documentary photographs of traditional Tibetan life as it had been lived for countless generations before the radical disruption effected by the Chinese takeover. Rosemary Jones Tung's text describes the culture Ilya Tolstoy and Brooke Dolan found during their ten-month trek across Tibet in 1942. Tung has selected 131 photographs from the two thousand taken during their expedition....

Note - This copy is without a dustwrapper, plain black boards

Format
Second hand Hardback
ISBN
000
Catalog
SKU
134860

TO SUM IT UP...

  • Arty Bees Books is Wellington's largest independent seller of new and used books.
  • Shop online and pay by credit card or bank deposit.
  • Send us a book query if you can't find what you're looking for.