In 1991, inspired by 12 years of martial arts practice, Dr. Pamela Logan, an aerospace scientist and a third-degree black belt in karate, embarked on a rare journey to investigate warrior tribes in eastern Tibet. This remarkable book offers a riveting account of her fascinating odyssey. 16 color photos. 5 maps.
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In 1991, inspired by 12 years of martial arts practice, Dr. Pamela Logan, an aerospace scientist and a third-degree black belt in karate, embarked on a rare journey to investigate warrior tribes in eastern Tibet. This remarkable book offers a riveting account of her fascinating odyssey. 16 color photos. 5 maps.
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Good. Size: 5x0x8; Chasing elusive chimeras is familiar territory for many exotic travel books. Take Pamela Logan: an overeducated, third-degree karate black belt who landed a grant to crisscross China and Tibet in search of a route into the forbidden province of Kham. In that stony, mountainous terrain live the Khampa, horsemen renowned for bitter guerrilla battles against the Chinese army that annexed Tibet. An extremely hardy soul, Logan bicycles though high snowy passes, hitchhikes across barren reaches broken by few settlements, stumbles through driving rain with Buddhist pilgrims, befriends orange-robed monks, and treks along slick ice pathways hung over precipitous drops in eastern Tibet. En route, she ponders the discipline of karate and swallows gallons of yak butter tea. The dialogue she recreates is stiff but fresh; vivid phrasing beautifully renders the people, the landscape, and her own evolution.
