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Catriona Bass – Inside The Treasure House – Uncorrected Proof Copy 1990
£35.00
An uncorrected proof copy of Inside the Treasure House by Catriona Bass, published by Gollancz, London in 1990. A near fine copy, with fading to the spine and light spotting to the text block.
Inside the Treasure House: A Time in Tibet by Catriona Bass details her eighteen thrilling months living in Tibet as one of the first Westerners allowed there since China’s take-over. Teaching in Lhasa in the mid‑1980s, she documents intimate interactions with Chinese officials, Tibetan monks and aristocrats. As cross‑cultural tensions escalate, Bass witnesses the expulsion of foreigners, the imprisonment of acquaintances and Tibet’s harsh descent back under martial law and military suppression.
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An uncorrected proof copy of Inside the Treasure House by Catriona Bass, published by Gollancz, London in 1990. A near fine copy, with fading to the spine and light spotting to the text block.
Inside the Treasure House: A Time in Tibet by Catriona Bass details her eighteen thrilling months living in Tibet as one of the first Westerners allowed there since China’s take-over. Teaching in Lhasa in the mid‑1980s, she documents intimate interactions with Chinese officials, Tibetan monks and aristocrats. As cross‑cultural tensions escalate, Bass witnesses the expulsion of foreigners, the imprisonment of acquaintances and Tibet’s harsh descent back under martial law and military suppression.
