num_pages: 240
description: New York Times bestselling author Colin Thubron returns with a moving intimate and exquisitely crafted travel memoir recounting his pilgrimage to the Hindu and Buddhist holy mountain of Kailaswhose peak represents the most sacred place on Earth to roughly a quarter the global population. With echoes of Peter Matthiessens The Snow Leopard Peter Hesslers Country Driving and Paul Theorouxs Ghost Train to the Eastern Star Thubrons follow up to his bestselling Shadow of the Silk Road will illuminate interest and inspire anyone interested in traveling the world or journeying into the soul.
language: English
title: To a Mountain in Tibet
publisher: Harper