Tibet - Paperback
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Tibet - Paperback
$26.44
by Colin M. Turnbull (Author)
From Simon & Schuster, Tibet is an account of the history, the religion and the people of Tibet by Thubten Jigme Norbu, elder brother of the Dalai Lama, and Colin M. Turnbull, author of The Forest People.
Describing Tibet's literature, legends, and realities of its religious life, Thubten Jigme Norbu explore the fascinating world of Tibet in this essential book.Author Biography
Colin M. Turnbull was born in London, and now lives in Connecticut. He was educated at Westminster School and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he studied philosophy and politics. After serving in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve during World War II, he held a research grant for two years in the Department of Indian Religion and Philosophy at Banaras Hindu University, in India, and then returned to Oxford, where he studied anthropology, specializing in the African field.
He has made five extended field trips to Africa, the last of which was spent mainly in the Republic of Zaïre. From these trips he drew the material for his first book, The Forest People, an account of the three years he spent with the Pygmies of Zaïre. Mr. Turnbull was a Professor of Anthropology at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He is a Research Associate at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, and a Corresponding Member of Le Musée Royal d'Afrique Centrale.
Number of Pages: 352
Dimensions: 0.88 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN
Publication Date: June 20, 2002
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