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Bones
of the Master : A Journey to Secret Mongolia
by George Crane
In the steady hands of poet George Crane, previously unknown Zen master
Tsung Tsai comes off as truly extraordinary. A "poet, philosopher, house
builder, scientist, doctor, and when necessary, kung fu ass-kicker," Tsung
Tsai would still be wandering about anonymously if it were not, Crane says,
for the need of financing provided by an advance on this book. The last
of the monks from his Chinese monastery, Tsung Tsai felt he had to return
one last time to find and honor his master's bones and rekindle his tradition.
Crane recounts their joint adventure, opening with Tsung Tsai's harrowing
decades-earlier escape from newly communist China, walking from Inner Mongolia
to Hong Kong through a war-torn, famine-struck, psychotic land, nearly
starving along the way. Crane, a self-styled hedonist ne'er-do-well, who
says that meditation makes him nauseous, sets the stage for an entrancing
buddy story back to China with this highly disciplined but carefree Zen
master. As their mutual affection grows, Crane absorbs Tsung Tsai's spare
but demanding philosophy, which sustains them through the base poverty
of northern China, a life-threatening 18-hour climb up and down a treacherous
mountain, and a confrontation with a master of black magic. A page-turner
and an eye-opener, Bones of the Master is worth every penny of that advance.
Amazon.com
Paperback from Bantam
Book Published: 29 May, 2001 |
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The Travels of Marco Polo (Unabridged)
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Planet Mongolia
by Robert Storey, Bradley Mayhew
Paperback from Lonely Planet
Book Published: May, 2001 |
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Mongolia
Map
by International Travel Maps
Map from ITMB Publishing
Book Published: 01 January, 2000
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China
- Mongolia
by Treaty Oak, Cartographia Kft, Cartographia
Map from Cartographia
Book Published: 01 January, 2002 |
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Tents
in Mongolia: Adventures and Experiences Among the Nomads of Central Asia
by Henning Haslund
Hardcover from Intl Specialized Book Service Inc
Book Published: February, 2004
Heart
of a Continent
by Sir Francis Younghusband, F.E. Younghusband
Hardcover from Laurier Books Ltd. /AES
Book Published: 01 June, 1993
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From
Pekin to Sikkim Through the Ordos, the Gobi Desert and Tibet, in 1904
by Count De Lesdain
Hardcover from Laurier Books Ltd. /AES
Book Published: 01 August, 1995
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The Land of the Lamas: Notes of a Journey Through China, Mongolia and
Tibet
by William Woodville Rockhill
Paperback from Pilgrims Publishing
Book Published: 22 April, 2002
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In Xanadu
by William Hamilton-Dalrymple
Hardcover from HarperCollins Publishers
Book Published: 24 August, 1989
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Mongolian
Adventure
by Haslund Henning, Henning Haslund
Paperback from The Long Riders' Guild Press
Book Published: September, 2001 |
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