More On Tibet

To learn more about the Tibetan experience …

Invaluable overviews are provided in John Avedon’s In Exile from the Land of the Snows and Tsering Shakya’s The Dragon in the Land of Snows.

The following first hand accounts, often poignant and always informative, relate the personal experience of Tibetans during and after the Chinese conquest:

A Strange Liberation: Tibetan Lives in Chinese Hands, by David Patt
In the Presence of My Enemies, by Sumner Carnahan
Sorrow Mountain, by Ani Pachen and Adelaide Donnelly
Sky Burial, by Blake Kerr
Warriors of Tibet, by Jamyang Norbu
A Season to Purge, published by the International Campaign for Tibet
Tears of Blood, A Cry for Tibet, by Mary Craig
The Voice that Remembers, by Adha Tapontsand and Joy Blakeslee

History Is Us

__________ “History is us,” an aged mentor at Indiana University once declared as he sought to convince me to switch to his department. “We can’t shake loose of it. We are nothing without it.” I realized recently that I could use those words to explain why I write The Bone Rattler novels. We are all … Continue reading

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History Is Us