Pico Iyer on “Tibet, Tibet”
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 10.27.03 | 8:58 PM ET
Iyer reviewed the new book by Patrick French in Sunday’s Los Angeles Times. “The new work stitches together an unflinching account of the author’s two-and-a-half month journey across Tibet in 1999 with an exhaustive excavation of historical resources designed to show that Tibet was never the peace-loving paradise so many generations of well-wishers have longed for it to be,” Iyer writes. In the end, it seems, Iyer had mixed feelings about the book. “I began to feel that what [French] had seen and heard in Tibet was so abject and so harrowing that he could no longer even open his ears to the hopeful voices of Dharamsala and London.” The article is available online only to subscribers.
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
