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

July 4: 248 Years to be Grateful For

Of all the passages in my new novel Freedom’s Ghost, the one that readers have most often commented on is the scene in which an escaped slave is being offered his freedom and he recoils: “My freedom ain’t yers to give,” he growls, “I have to earn it.” It is a simple but profound sentiment, … Continue reading

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July 4: 248 Years to be Grateful For