First Russia, then Tibet
Subtitle: travels through a changing world
By: Robert Byron
Edition: New ed.
Publisher: Tauris Parke
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9781848854246
Subjects: Travel; Description and travel
Description: "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.
Notes: " First published in 1933 by Macmillan & Co. Ltd."-- T.p. verso.

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