The Heart of the World
Subtitle: A Journey to the Last Secret Place
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
Published: November 4, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9781594200274
Subjects: Essays & Travelogues; Religious; Discovery And Exploration (General); Buddhism; Tsangpo Gorges (China); Biography / Autobiography; Religion - World Religions; Travel; Exploration; Discovery and exploration; Adventurers & Explorers; Buddhism - Tibetan; Religion / Buddhism; Tsangpo Gorges Region (China); Buddhism - General; Description and travel
First sentence: I FIRST LEARNED of Tibet's hidden-lands in 1977 in Kathmandu, where I had traveled at nineteen on a college semester abroad program to study Buddhist scroll painting.