From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet by Vikram Seth

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From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet

by Vikram Seth

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Xinjiang, China

Tibet

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Thomas Cook Travel Book Award (1983)

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Important places	Xinjiang, China, Tibet
Awards and honors	Thomas Cook Travel Book Award (1983)

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 039475218X, Paperback)

After two years as a postgraduate student at Nanjing University in China, Vikram Seth hitch-hiked back to his home in New Delhi, via Tibet. From Heaven Lake is the story of his remarkable journey and his encounters with nomadic Muslims, Chinese officials, Buddhists and others.

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