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Mapping the Tibetan World

Name: Mapping the Tibetan World
Author: Yukiyasu Osada
ISBN: 9780970171603

by Yukiyasu Osada, Atsushi Kanamaru (Editor), Atsushi Kanamaru

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Overview

This extraordinary budget travel guide to the Tibetan world comes with over 280 tried and tested maps covering the entire region. Get there and get around: Hundreds of pages of travel information. Plus gateway cities: New Delhi, Calcutta, Chengdu, Kunming, Kathmandu and Pokhara.

Keep to your budget: Hotel tariffs, tour and trekking costs, permit and visa charges. Pack everything in: Cultural, historical and religious explanations, festival dates, sights & more...

Synopsis

Unique Maps

Visitors will be able to explore the entire region using this collection of over 280 highly detailed, tried and tested maps.

Comprehensive

Extensive coverage of Central Tibet and popular destinations within the Tibetan Cultural Region not normally covered. Including: China, Nepal, Dharamsala (Home to the Dalai Lama), Ladakh & Zanskar (N.W. India) and Sikkim (N.E. India) and Bhutan.

In-depth & Up-to-date

The latest travel information to even the remotest areas supplemented by extensive religious, cultural and historical explanations, illustrations, photos, language sections, festival dates and much more...

Big World Trav Magazin & Hotels.com

Tibet-bound travelers will find no better guide than Mapping the Tibetan World.

About the Author, Yukiyasu Osada

Born and raised in Aichi, central Japan, Yukiyasu Osada made his first trip to Tibet in 1987 while a student at Waseda University, Tokyo. He is a Tibet tour guide and a freelance writer.

Born in London and raised in Kent, southeast England, editor Gavin Allwright has traveled to places such as India, China, Japan, and southeast Asia. He lives and works in Tokyo.

Atsushi Kanamaru has visited over 20 countries including Tibet, China, Nepal and India. As a former student of JapanÆs Waseda University, he is now an editor residing in Tokyo.

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Editorials

Big World Trav Magazin & Hotels.com

Tibet-bound travelers will find no better guide than Mapping the Tibetan World.

Library Journal

Recommended for all travel collections specializing in Asian geographic areas.

Nepali Times

This guidebook is a perfect travel companion for anyone journeying in the Tibetosphere.

Shambhala Sun

A little gem of a guide, this book gives excellent synopses that help one prepare for a trip to the Himalayan region: regional overviews, potential tour routes, visa considerations, and tips for how to travel in Chinese "closed" areas.

Tibet Society

This is a highly comprehensive publication with all the latest information, covering even the remotest areas with helpful costings to facilitate a reasonably accurate budget.

Library Journal

Although this book has about 300 very detailed maps everything from a map of Potala Palace to downtown Cheng-du it is essentially a travel guide rather than a history of mapping the Tibetan region, as the title may suggest. In the first chapter, the authors, all experienced travelers captivated by Tibet, are admirably forthright about the drawbacks of travel there (e.g., Tibetan mastiffs that bite on sight, the need for vaccinations, altitude sickness, and the absence of gourmet meals) and then spend the rest of the book focusing on the good points, such as the many monasteries and cultural sites and the ability to travel on $12 a day. Pages are filled with practical tourist information, basic tours, very detailed instructions (e.g., the building in front of which a bus leaves), and plentiful photos. Recommended for all travel collections specializing in Asian geographic areas. Mary Lynette Larsgaard, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.