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This remarkable book is both a comprehensive trekking guide to mountain paths and plateau trails, and a pilgrimage guide that draws on Tibetan literature and religious history. Victor Chan has covered 42,000 kilometers in Tibet on foot and by bus, trucks, horses, yaks and coracle; the result is indisputably the most authoritative sourcebook to one of the world's most remote and fascinating destinations."This is by far the most detailed and comprehensive guide to Tibet ever to appear in a Western language--a monument to the labours of the intrepid Victor Chan, who is a worthy successor of the great explorers of the nineteenth century. It will be a long time before this indispensable work is superseded." Dr. Michael Aris, Fellow, St. Antony's College, Oxford The author has himself covered 42,000 kilometers in Tibet on foot and by bus, truck, horse, yak, and coracle. He has written both a comprehensive trekking guide to mountain paths and plateau trails, as well as a pilgrimage guide that incorporates Tibetan literature and religious history. Thorough, d This comprehensive trekking guide, designed for use on footpaths, and a pilgrimage guide, draws on the tradition of Tibetan literature that chronicles the land's religious geography. The author has covered 25,000 miles in Tibet by bus, truck, horse, yak and on foot. Fully illustrated throughout, this comprehensive new guide to Tibet contains 1,200 pages of meticulously detailed itineraries, fascinating descriptions, helpful advice, and eye-opening illustrations. 250 maps. Victor Chan. Subtitle On Cover: A Pilgrimage Guide. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 1062-1064) And Indexes.