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Suggested Reading

*Seven Years in Tibet   Heinrich Harrer
*The Way of the White Clouds   Lama Anagarika Govinda
On Top of the World   Luree Miller
*My Journey to Lhasa   Alexandra David-Neel
Magic and Mystery in Tibet   Alexandra David-Neel
Tibetan Venture   Andre Gubaut
The Abode of Snow   Andrew Wilson
A Tibetan on Tibet   G.A. Combe
Sacred Tibet   Philip Rawson
White Lotus   Elchert & Sugden
*The Religions of Tibet   Tucci
The Life of Milarepa   Lobsang Pl Lhalungpa
*House of the Turquoise Roof   Dorje Yudon Yuthok
The Tibetan Book of the Dead   Freemantle & Trongpa
Inside Tibetan Buddhism   Robert Thurman
Kailash Mandala   Tsewang Lama
*In Exile from the Land of Snows   John F. Avedon
A Stranger in Tibet   Scott Berry
*The Sacred Mountain   John Snelling
Tibet is my Country   Thubten Jigme Norbu & Heinrich Harrer
Warriors of Tibet   Jamyang Norbu
First Russia Then Tibet   Robert Byron
*A Mountain in Tibet   Charles Allen
In the Himalayas   Jeremy Bernstein
Flight of the Wind Horse   Niema Ash
Bayonets to Lhasa   Peter Fleming
*The People of Tibet   Charles Bell
*Kailas: on pilgrimage to the sacred mountain of Tibet   Russell Johnson & Kerry Moran
*Tibet, Tibet   Patrick French


Many of these are obscure. After you've combed Amazon and the used bookstores (you might find a copy of Victor Chan's Tibet Guidebook there) you might try to web for something called Pilgrims Bookhouse which has branches in Kathmandu and Varonese (formerly Benares) in India. They are excellent.

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