The Flight of the Dalai Lama

Noel Baber

Hodder & Stoughton

160

1960

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Dalai Lama

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"There is nothing the free world can do at the moment about Tibet; not yet. Even so, world emotions cannot be denied forever. These are the tides that shake the foundations of empires built on greed and lust and cruelty; no emperor ever born has been powerful enough to stand against them forever, and though for the moment Tibet is 'forgotten' and the world knows little of what is happening, Tibet is not dead, nor is the 'Tibetan question', in the consciences of the world." Noel Barber's story takes him not only to Tezpur to welcome the God-king, but up through the high passes of Tibet to talk, in person, with the leaders of the Tibetan guerillas and so piece together the complete story of what was happening, and how it led to the great revolt at Lhasa, and the escape of the Dalai Lama. Barber writes of Tibet and its people as vividly as he wrote of Antarctica in The White Desert, and this new book, in turn exciting, entertaining, angry, but intelligent always, establishes himself as one of the world's best and most brilliant writers.