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Authors: John Avedon
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In Exile From the Land of Snows
PRAISE FOR JOHN F. AVEDON’S
In Exile from the Land of Snows
“What Alexander Solzhenitsyn did for the Soviet Union, John F. Avedon does for Tibet.”
—
Los Angeles Times
“Marvelous, heartrending, and heartwarming.”
—William Shawcross, author of
Counting One’s Blessings
and
The Queen Mother
“The detailed life stories Avedon recounts are nothing short of stunning.”
—
The Denver Post
“Utterly engaging. There are passages dealing with India that will have you smelling the dust. This book deserves wide readership, the author our applause.”
—
The San Diego Tribune
JOHN F. AVEDON
In Exile from the Land of Snows
John F. Avedon has written for
The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Maclean’s, Parade
, and other publications. He lives in New York City.
SECOND VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, JANUARY 2015
Copyright © 1979, 1984, 1997, 2015 by John F. Avedon
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House LLC, New York, a Penguin Random House company. Originally published in hardcover in the United States in slightly different form by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House LLC, New York, in 1984, and in paperback, in revised form, by Harper Perennial in 1997.
Vintage and colophon are trademarks of Random House LLC.
Portions of this work have previously appeared in
Rolling Stone
magazine.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:
The New York Times:
An excerpt from “Exploring the Mysteries of Tibetan Medicine,” from January 11, 1981,
The New York Times Magazine
by John F. Avedon and “Tibet’s ‘Exile Generation’ ” from February 26, 1984,
The New York Times Magazine
by John F. Avedon. Copyright © 1981, 1984, by The New York Times Company. Reprinted by permission of The New York Times Company.
The Central Tibetan Authority and the International Campaign for Tibet: “Chronology of Tibetan-Chinese Relations, 1979 to 2014” was prepared using materials provided by the Central Tibetan Authority. Reprinted with permission of the Central Tibetan Authority and the International Campaign for Tibet.
The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows:
Avedon, John F.
In exile from the land of snows / John F. Avedon. —first edition
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Tibet (China)—History—1951 I. Title. DS786.A94 1994 951’.505—dc20 94-9866
Vintage Books Trade Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8041-7337-7
eBook ISBN: 978-0-8041-7338-4
Cover design by Mike Jones
Cover photograph © Georg Hafner/Getty Images
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