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"Every door opened to this remarkable scholar who succeeded in studying and photographing all objects of artistic value, going through every manuscript in existence and exploring the mist secretchurches, which no one had penetrated before. In addition to the scholarly pursuits, Guiseppe Tucci, has sketched with remarkable accuracy and descriptive skill, every details of the way of lief of a people of whom little has ever been known. Through this vivid travelogue undertaken across laboul, spiti, to western tibet, we get a glimpse of real people, events and places, etched out on a fantasti canvas bringing to life each and every contour. Traditional medical practices, burial customs, marriages and household rituals, detailed accounts of the ancient monasteries and sacred manuscripts of a vanished faith are all laid out as a feast for the inquisitive reader. ISBN 81-7020-702-9. Pages 224. 22 14 cm. 48 illustration, drawings, cloth.
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