Tibet
Subtitle: The Secret Continent
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Published: February 27, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780312309534
Subjects: Asia - Tibet; Pictorials; Subjects & Themes - Travel - General; Travel / Pictorials; Travel - Foreign; Civilization; Description; Description and travel; Tibet (China); Travel
First sentence: SITUATED IN THE HEART of Asia, the Tibetan world covers the entire extent of the great Tibetan plateau, extending from the southern face of the Himalayas northwards to the Kuen Lung range that borders the Taklamakan Desert of Chinese Turkestan, and from east and west it ranges from the hills of Sichuan to the Hindu Kush.