First Russia, then Tibet travels through a changing world
"Over the course of several months during 1931 and 1932, Robert Byron journeyed to three countries teetering on the brink of change. In Russia, which was stricken by famine, Stalin's dictatorship was in its infancy and the Great Terror was yet to begin. Having taken the first commercial fl...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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London
Tauris Parke Paperbacks
2011
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| Ausgabe: | New ed. |
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Byron, Robert / 1905-1941 / Travel / Soviet Union
> Byron, Robert / 1905-1941 / Travel / China / Tibet Autonomous Region
> Byron, Robert
> Geschichte 1900-2000
> Geschichte 1931-1932
> Soviet Union / Description and travel / 20th century
> Tibet Autonomous Region (China) / Description and travel / 20th century
> Sowjetunion
> Russland
> Britisch-Indien
> China
> Tibet
> Reisebericht
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "Over the course of several months during 1931 and 1932, Robert Byron journeyed to three countries teetering on the brink of change. In Russia, which was stricken by famine, Stalin's dictatorship was in its infancy and the Great Terror was yet to begin. Having taken the first commercial flight to India, which took a week, Byron was thrown into the tumultuous last years of the British Raj. Gandhi was imprisoned while rioting and clashes between Hindus and Muslims had become commonplace. Finally Byron entered Tibet, the forbidden country. Exploring the Land of Snows, he saw Tibet as it was when the then Dalai Lama was still ensconced in the Potala Palace, twenty years before China's invasion. Blending classic travel writing with passionate observations on the deeper political and social issues of the time, Byron writes with uncanny prescience of the eventual horrors of the Soviet Union and the downfall of the Raj."--Back cover |
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| Beschreibung: | " First published in 1933 by Macmillan & Co. Ltd."-- T.p. verso Includes bibliographic references |
| Beschreibung: | 253 S. 20 cm |
| ISBN: | 1848854242 1-84885-424-2 9781848854246 978-1-84885-424-6 |